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The Whip

Candido Portinari1943

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition unidentified tones. Contour lines, broken and tangled. man whipping another It depicts. In the foreground, front man with his arms stretched to the right and upward, holding the wooden handle of a whip, on the left leg bent to the left side and stretched on the right. He has matted hair, eyes suggested without setting nose and mouth. The man on the left is turned, tilted to the left, seems tied to a trunk, suggesting catch the man with the whip. Figures naked bodies are represented by dashed fast. Background with dashed straight and curved light.

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  • Title: The Whip
  • 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: 1943
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w15.5 x h20.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: human figure:group:men
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4417
  • Inscription: Inscriptions, in top left corner, "Cap. LXVIII”; at bottom edge, "214”, "O VERGALHO” and at bottom right, "Braz Cubas” and "machado”
  • Function: Study for the engraving “The Whip” [FCO 1360]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1953
Projeto Portinari

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