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Sugar Cane Harvest

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, earthy, white, blue, gray and green. Contour lines in graphite. It depicts harvesting and transportation of cane, occupying the entire area of ​​the composition. In the foreground, on the left, bent man in profile to the right, carrying on his back large sugarcane stalks tied and secured with thick ropes. Wears sleeveless shirt and blue pants rolled up. In the background, on the right, two cane cutters side by side, in profile to the right. The first makes gesture of who will cut a walking cane with a machete in his on the right hand. On the floor, on your on the left, you see a gourd. Just over the background, another cane cutter, with the semi-obscured by the first body, wearing a hat with the flap behind. On the left part of curved worker with arms outstretched to catch a beam of cane on the floor in front of him, seeing the wide-brimmed hat. In the third plane, on the left, bent worker forward with his head down, bringing back a bundle of sugarcane and on the right next to the plantation, curved back man wearing hat and ochre clothes. At the bottom, rushes into perspective, occupying the entire top edge where most find themselves two front cane cutters for planting. The cane field crosses the composition diagonally on the right and on the left on the floor are spread reed bundles bound with cords.

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  • Title: Sugar Cane Harvest
  • 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: w44.5 x h45cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:sugar cane, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: tempera , lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom left edge "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1938
  • Notes: Support affixed to wood.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Sugar Cane” [FCO 1749]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-857
Projeto Portinari

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