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Ox and Cowboy
Candido Portinari1958
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, loose and nuances lines. Ox lying on the legs, on the right diagonal to the left and from front to back, with the head in profile to the right and tongue out. In the background, on the right, front man holding stick stretched toward the animal, as if poking it.
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Details
- Title: Ox and Cowboy
- 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: 1958
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w22.9 x h21.4cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:working scenes:lassoing cattle, social:workers:cowboy, Nature:Animals:ox, human figure:man
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Stamped signature in bottom right corner "Portinari*". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 650
- Inscription: On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 1124”.
- Function: Study for the painting Four Cowboys Lassoing Cattle [FCO 2841]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4374
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