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Mule Driver

Candido Portinari1943

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines, angular and sinuous. It depicts man on horseback in a way and figure in the background waving in his direction. In the foreground, on the right, man on horseback nearly edge-on to the right, he is the head turned back looking toward a figure in the background that is waving in his direction. He wears a hat, pants and jacket and safe horse reins that is with the on the left front leg bent. The path is winding according to the background making big bows, watching on the edge mounds suggested by straight and angular lines.

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  • Title: Mule Driver
  • 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: 1943
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w18.5 x h22cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:donkey, human figure:man
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Initialed in bottom right corner "C.P.". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1281
  • Notes: Support affixed to paper.
  • Inscription: Inscription at bottom edge of paper to which work is affixed "Almocreve”
  • Function: Study for the engraving “Mule Driver” [FCO 1359]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1942
Projeto Portinari

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