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Threshing Rice

Candido Portinari1960

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in green, blue, lilac, yellow, ochre, white, rose and earthy. Smooth texture, marked strokes. Composition representing two men pounding rice in a table taking a central area of ​​the composition against background composed of geometrical areas in various shades. The table is in the center of the composition, forming slight diagonal from the left to the right, front to the back, has four legs indicated and seems to have a top formed by six boards together. To the right of center, facing the table, figure, probably a man, on his back, with his raised arms flexed and back and hands shown holding clear rectangular, appearing to be a bundle of rice, as if it hit it on the table. The figure wears light clothing, with pants at the knees, have legs apart and barefoot. To the left of the composition, human form, standing almost across the other side of the table, with his arms raised over his head, holding a rice beam with which it looks set to beat on the table. wear light clothing, it has the wide apart legs and bare feet. The bottom is composed of overlapping areas in various geometrical tones that overlap and merge to FIGS.

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  • Title: Threshing Rice
  • 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: 1960
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w72.5 x h59.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating rice, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 60"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2999
  • Inscription: On back of frame, stamp "Goya DECORAÇÕES BARON PORNALI Augusta 2191 Loja 4” [twice]. On reverse, inscriptions "7A”, "4” and "0,73 x 060”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4676
Projeto Portinari

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