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Hand
Candido Portinari1937
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Predominance of contour lines and some shaded. Study on the right hand, occupying almost the entire area support against a plain background. Hand is slightly on the left diagonal to the right and from the bottom up, closed, suggesting be holding a cylindrical object.
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Details
- Title: Hand
- 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: 1937
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w13.7 x h18cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:limbs:hand
- Technique: charcoal
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 694
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 304” and "Nº 554”.
- Function: Study for the mural painting Sugar Cane [FCO 1749]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-707
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