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Profile of "Nonna"
Candido Portinari1937
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in ochre, green, and white earthy. Resulting rough texture of the support itself. Woman's head in profile to the left, taking up almost the entire area of the composition. Face slightly shifted to the right, watching the bottom on the left. Has hair with well-marked wires, suggesting being stuck in the neck, broad forehead, marked eyebrow, clear eye, long nose, thick lips, closed and prominent chin. monochrome face. Green background.
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Details
- Title: Profile of "Nonna"
- 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: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w19 x h20.6cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: portrait:the artist's family:grandmother
- Technique: fresco
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 2752
- Function: Work executed to decorate a wall in the home of the artists parents, Brodowski, SP. The house where the artists parents lived, along with the work, was expropriated by the São Paulo state government in 1969 and transformed into a museum in 1970. This is one of the artists first three mural paintings; see Head of Mulatto Woman with Blue Background [FCO 2750] and Portrait Bust of Mulatto Woman [FCO 2751].
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-658
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