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Pigeons
Candido Portinari1961
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in blue and white tones. Colored areas and lines. On the right side wall building entry of vehicles covered by tile panel representing pigeons against background consists of large irregular ameboid and colored areas. All animals are flying and in profile to the left and distributed symmetrically. Each is in square formed by four tiles, suggesting a network. Doves are with open wings have feathers represented and have tail point down.
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Details
- Title: Pigeons
- 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: 1961
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:Animals:dove, non-figurative
- Technique: tiles
- Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 61"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 3683
- Inscription: Inscription at bottom right "DE MARCHIS S.PAULO”
- Function: Work executed to decorate the right side wall of the ground floor of the building at Rue Pierre I, de Serbie, nº 39, Paris. Work designed by architect Jacques Pilon.
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4803
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