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Migrants

Candido Portinari1945

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition unidentified tones. Texture unidentified. It depicts double refugees, the man with leg-of-stick against geometrized background. Both are old, they are standing in front. The woman is on the left with his head 3/4 to on the right, looking up holding bundle of clothes on his on the right hand and with his on the left arm embraces the man standing beside him, watching his fingers on his on the left arm. She has long hair, lined face, using long dress and is barefoot. Man is on the right with the head turned to the left, holding kind of stick with his on the left hand and hugging the woman by the shoulders with his on the right arm; his on the left leg is stick from the knee, has long beard and defined facial features. On the left and pestle down and on the right and behind the gourd figures, a kind of wooden ledge that crosses the on the left to the right in the composition in perspective from the front to the back.

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  • Title: Migrants
  • 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: 1945
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w150 x h180cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:Northeastern migrant, human figure:couple, diverse:recurring elements:gourd, diverse:recurring elements:mortar and pestle
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signature? Date?
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5186
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2417
Projeto Portinari

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