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Prospectors

Candido Portinari1941

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones, white and rose. Predominance of contour lines. mining It depicts in a river. In the foreground, on the left, standing figure, almost back on the bank of a river, on the right, man with feet in the water, in profile to the left, tilted, wearing a hat and holding sieve. In the background, on the left, front man in the water; on the right man in d'profile of water on the left with sieve at hand. In the background, on the left, is seen part of a boat, a prospector front with sieve and shapes suggesting water lilies.

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  • Title: Prospectors
  • 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: 1941
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w22 x h24cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:prospecting for gold, social:workers:prospector, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: colored pencil
  • Signature: Stamped signature in bottom right corner "Portinari*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 426
  • Notes: Top of support is shaped like a semicircle.
  • Inscription: On reverse, lines possibly by the artist; authentication and inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 1003”.
  • Function: Study, not used, for the mural painting “Mining of Gold” [FCO 3768]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1488
Projeto Portinari

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