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Rubber Trees

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in green tones, blue, earthy, gray, orange, ochre, yellow, rose, red, white and black. Smooth and rough texture resulting from support, and built by figures colored pasta. Rubber plantation It depicts with men, animals and details of rubber trees trunks with incisions for rubber extraction. Men foreground disposed throughout the length of the width of support, in various positions. Most of them have represented the skin dark red tones. None has represented facial features and all wear geometrical colored clothes. The floor, the rubber trees and background are also geometrized. On the left back man, half-kneeling, pointing shotgun toward a tapir which is at the bottom. More to the right, man riding horse in profile to the right. To the left of center, three men group near where rubber is one earthyed toucan. In the center, six-man group at various positions, especially down figure with hat covering his face and rubber pellet oven and on man climbing rubber. To the right of center, another group of five men in various positions near two rubber, the larger of the composition. On the right oven, Figure inclined with hat and, at the bottom, two rubber making incisions in the trunk of a tree.

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  • Title: Rubber Trees
  • 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: 1957
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w54 x h22.3cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:rubber tapping, social:workers:rubber tapper, Nature:Animals:tapir, Nature:Animals:horse, Nature:landscape:forest, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right edge on paper to which work is affixed "Portinari 57"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2932
  • Notes: Support affixed to paper.
  • Inscription: On back of frame, label from Cosmorama store.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the panel “Rubber Trees”; not executed. Work designed to decorate the headquarters of the Banco da Amazônia, Belém, PA
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4175
Projeto Portinari

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