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Composition in black and white. Straight lines, quick strokes. Intersecting lines, most diagonally, suggesting hill. There is a greater concentration of diagonal parallel lines and from the left to the right and from front to back in the lower half of the support. On the top edge, which seems to be the top of the hill, rounded.

Details

  • Title: Slum
  • Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
  • Creator Nationality: Brazilian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Date: 1959
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w15 x h23cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:shanty town
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Stamped signature at bottom right edge "Portinari*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 666
  • Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 17” and "Nº 340”.
  • Function: Sketch for the paintings “Slum” [FCO 1074] and “City” [FCO 1434]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4477

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