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Candido Portinari1955
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Fast contour lines. Woman's head, with kind of hat with veil over her head, occupying almost the entire stand area. The figure is nearly edge-on to the left, you have a kind of triangular hat on the head of which fell what looks like a veil. She has big eyes, long, broad nose, thick lips closed. Plain background.
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Details
- Title: Muse
- 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: human figure:limbs:head, human figure:woman
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Signed in bottom right corner "Portinari". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 3080
- Inscription: On back of frame, label "mmmolduras Pça. Benedito Calixto 77 Pinheiros S.P.”.
- Function: Sketch. 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-3489
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