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Rubber

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, earthy, red, gray and blue. Smooth texture. It depicts men working in the extraction of rubber. In the foreground, to the left, back man with legs apart and on the right arm raised, holding a tool toward the tree trunk is in front, as if extracting latex. This figure is repeated in the second and third planes, causing the first, a perspective to the bottom and to the right. Still in the foreground, on the right, dog lying profile to on the left and a rubber ball at his side, more to the right. In the background on the right, man standing in front, his head tilted to the left. On the left profile man on the left, carrying canister in the head holding with his on the left hand. In the center of the composition, a kind of cone where it is latex cooking. On the ground, cut several logs, rocks, vegetation and trees tufts, of which only see the trunks to the bottom of the composition ..

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  • Title: Rubber
  • 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: 1938
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w41 x h40cm 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:dog, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: gouache , lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed in bottom right corner "Portinari" and "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5326
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscriptions "Borracha”, "Estudos Para os afrescos do Palacio do Ministerio da Educação e Saude no Rio de Janeiro” and "R.L. 3-2-39”; stamp "U.S. APPRA[ISER] NEW YORK F.A.I. SPECIAL BOND 1757 Date MAR 18 1939”.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Rubber” [FCO 1758]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-904
Projeto Portinari

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