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Mother Courage
Candido Portinari1955
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Sketch lines and shading. Figure of woman leaning over dead child occupying almost the entire stand area. The woman is sitting on the floor, front, head, holding in her arms dead child, his head to the left and legs to the right. Has indicated facial features, skeletal body with fallen on the right arm, bent legs with bare feet on the floor.
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Details
- Title: Mother Courage
- 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: 1955
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w10 x h12cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:war, social:death, human figure:child:boy, human figure:woman
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Signed at bottom left edge "Portinari". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 3084
- Inscription: On back of frame, label "Ao Colarinho de Madeira – Quadros, Molduras, Gravuras, Esterilização, Plastificação Inscrição 108.362.402 C.G.C. 62.801.618/001 Rua Padre João Manoel, 795 S.Paulo”.
- Function: Sketch for the panel War [FCO 3799]. Reny Golcman, to whom the artist gave the work as a gift, was among the students from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes who visited Portinari in 1955 as he painted the panels War [FCO 3799] and Peace [FCO 3798].
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3534
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