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Threshing Beans

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Tangled lines and shading. Bean processing It depicts field lanscape. In the foreground, on the left of center, crouching woman, turned to the right, arms outstretched and legs apart on bag. On the right four stacked bags closed. In the background, on the left, standing in profile woman to the right, with girl on the left. A woman carries a bundle on her head. Beside the girl, dog standing also facing right. Further back, a little to the right, woman standing in front, holding the sieve with the on the right hand and with his on the left hand into the sieve. In the center and on the right of the composition, six men around a hill of beans. The men are all with legs apart, holding sticks, five are with arms raised and lowered with the arm; They suggest be hitting the beans to remove it from the pods. On the third level, to the left, around behind which you see three heads of cattle and a horse. The fence is diagonally from the left to the right and front to back; the center and on the right, planting and bottom bushes.

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  • Title: Threshing Beans
  • 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: w49 x h34cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating beans, social:workers:farm hand, Nature:Animals:calf, Nature:Animals:ox, Nature:Animals:horse, human figure:group:men, human figure:group:women, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4088
  • Function: Study for the panel “Bean Harvest” [FCO 1082]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4139
Projeto Portinari

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