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Transportation of Coffee
Candido Portinari1960
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Geometric areas and parallel lines. Study representing two coffee chargers queues. They see half body of the two figures from the front, with bags over their heads, and other bags in two front rows back in perspective. Geometrized whole composition.
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Details
- Title: Transportation of Coffee
- 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: w9.5 x h12cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:working scenes:carrying coffee, social:workers:carrier
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Stamped signature in middle of bottom half "Portinari*". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 393
- Inscription: On back of frame, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 759” and "Nº 965”.
- Function: Study for the panel Transportation of Coffee [FCO 2730]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4725
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