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Woman with Rooster

Candido Portinari1941

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray, white, blue, ochre, red, rose, and black earthy. Smooth texture in the background, rough and thick in the figures of women and rooster. Woman with cock in her lap, occupying the full area of ​​support. The woman is sitting on a kind of crate, from the front, with the upper body leaning to the right and head to the left, on the right arm involving the body of the cock and on the left resting on his knee, his hand holding the animal's neck and legs well apart. It wears a kind of red beret on the black, wavy hair that falls to her neck, has small face to the body, enlarged eyes, straight nose and full lips. Wears loose clothes, had taken that fall-forming draping to the ground. Bare feet, the on the right resting on the floor and on the left on a kind of wooden bat. The rooster is on his on the right leg, profile to the right, has the mane and legs worked with spatula and black dots all over the body. The ground is represented in rose and background in bright blue. At the upper left corner, three balloons side by side, in decreasing size from the left to the right.

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  • Title: Woman with Rooster
  • 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: 1941
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w80 x h100cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:rooste, Brazilian Culture:children's games:toys:balloon, human figure:woman
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Stamped signature in bottom left corner "PORTINARI*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2058
  • Inscription: On stretcher, label with inscription by Maria Portinari "2552/F3 [illegible]”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1383
Projeto Portinari

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