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Circle Dance

Candido Portinari1956

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines, and quickly dashed superimposed. Composition representing wheel playfully amid the courtyard of a kibbutz. The wheel consists of eight girls and one boy. Girls wear dresses and skirts have represented hair. Of that face they see is suggested facial features. Almost all are with one foot raised and the other resting on the floor, as if they were jumping and dancing. The eight figures are holding hands and bent arms. The boy is on the left with the body almost back and head almost from the front and with the legs wide apart. In the background, on the left, vertical lines and eight semicircular suggesting agricultural machine. On the right cylindrical representing an area surrounded by grain silo beams that are on the floor (probably some cereal already cut).

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  • Title: Circle Dance
  • 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: w35.5 x h26cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:landscape:kibbutz, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari Israel". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2979
  • 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-3991
Projeto Portinari

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