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The Lunatics Set Free

Candido Portinari1944

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines and straight. It depicts a man standing on a street and several figures sketched and running with his arms up, seeing to the construction background with clerestory windows. In the foreground, to the left and on the right lines suggesting walls. In the background, center, man standing in front with his arms back and legs apart, on your on the right, the man running big steps and with your arms straight up, more to the left, another figure in the same position; on the right three figures suggested only by rapid lines. In the background, in the center, part of a building with three rectangular windows with grills.

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  • Title: The Lunatics Set Free
  • 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: 1944
  • Location Created: Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w19 x h9.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: human figure:group:men
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1311
  • Inscription: Inscription in bottom left corner "29”
  • Function: Illustration no. 28 for the book “O alienista,” by Machado de Assis
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2248
Projeto Portinari

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