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Power Lines
Candido Portinari1956
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Straight and intersecting lines. Composition almost abstract mains poles vertically with lots of yarn, forming parallel lines traversing the composition block diagonally above from the left to the right and front to back. The wires there are dots that suggest birds sitting.
Details
- Title: Power Lines
- 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: 1956
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w35 x h27cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:landscape
- Technique: India ink pen
- Signature: Signed in bottom right corner "Portinari Israel". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 274
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 600” and "Nº 745”.
- Function: Work executed in Brazil upon the artist's return from Israel. The inscription registers the location that inspired the work.. Israel Series
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3910
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