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Two Roosters

Candido Portinari1941

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones, white, black, ochre and red. Smooth texture, marked strokes and apparent screen. Composition representing a black and a white rooster, with entwined necks, floor ochre and blue and stained in blue background. Ahead, white rooster, profile on the left, plumage suggested by loose and fast strokes; beak, eye, crest and papilha indicated. It has well defined feet slightly apart from each other and rearing tail. A little further back and on the left, black cock 3/4 facing right, his neck looped behind the white cock. It eye beak ridge and suggested papilha; He stands with legs apart and has black plumage and low. Floor in earthy and blue tones with dark winding line that seems to be a string on the left. Spotted background in blue tones.

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  • Title: Two Roosters
  • 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: 1941
  • Physical Dimensions: w55 x h46cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:rooste
  • Technique: oil , tempera
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 1941"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2970
  • Inscription: On stretcher, inscriptions "BARETO [sic]” and "55,5 x 46”. On back of frame, inscriptions "122” and "12”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1395
Projeto Portinari

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