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Threshing Beans

Candido Portinari1956

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Tangled and contour lines. It depicts bean harvest. In the foreground on the left, inclined women, picking beans with the sieve of a hill that is on the floor. One is toward the on the left, and the other from the front, having at his side a full bean bag. In the center of the composition, four men working with sticks in hand, stirring the beans that are on the ground in place of rectangular shape. On the right, sheep lying to the right. Behind him, beans mound. On the left, in the background, two kids play next to vegetation and fence posts about following in perspective for background. Basically, stacked sacks of beans.

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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: 1956
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w43 x h32cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating beans, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, Nature:Animals:kid, Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed in middle of bottom half "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4084
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription "Batendo Feijão [scratched out] 43 x 33”; typed label "MAISON DE LA PENSÉE FRANÇAISE 2, RUE DE L’ELYSÉE PARIS VII – 99 BATTAGE DES HARICOTS”.
  • Function: Study
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3837
Projeto Portinari

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