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Scene from Coffee Plantation

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones rose, green, gray, white, earthy, blue and orange. Rough texture thick, marked strokes. It depicts harvest and coffee loading. In the foreground, from the left to the right: stack of seven bags of coffee and two curved workers with arms down in a position to pick up coffee bag on the floor, and the on the left is the front and the on the right is back 3/4 facing right. Both wear straw hat and are barefoot. In the background, on the left, top coffee plantation that runs to the bottom of the composition in a diagonal from the left to the right and from front to back; on the right woman standing with her back with legs apart and arms raised above his head, picking coffee. It brings the head which seems to be a cloth tied and wear long sleeve dress and skirt geometrized forming chess. In the third plan, from the left to the right: continuation of the plantation; four women standing with her back, side by side diagonally from the left to the right and from front to back; in the same position of the settler in the background, worker standing in front with legs apart and arms raised in the act of holding sieve sift the grains; curved front worker, carrying large bag of coffee back again and coffee plantation. And ground path between the coffee plantation, geometrized in rose tones.

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  • Title: Scene from Coffee Plantation
  • 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: w58.5 x h48.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men, human figure:group:women
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right edge "PORTINARI 57"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2034
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4132
Projeto Portinari

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