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Winnowing Coffee

Candido Portinari1954

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines, tangled and shaded. It depicts Three farmers working in the coffee harvest. In the foreground, on the left, front woman, squatting on bunch of coffee, holding sieve with both hands. Beside her, bag full of coffee. In the center of the composition, front woman, legs apart and arms raised holding sieve on both sides, throwing the coffee up. Behind her, bags of coffee stacking. On the right man tilted to the left, lifting bag from the floor. Behind the man on the right, three tree trunks, and in the middle, leaning wooden ladder. In the bottom on the left, coffee shrubs and a back farmer working in the bush room from the left to the right.

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  • Title: Winnowing Coffee
  • 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: 1954
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w45 x h35cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: medium unidentified
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right edge "Portinari 954"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4089
  • Function: Illustration for the August page of Panair do Brasil's 1955 calendar.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3287
Projeto Portinari

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