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Wild Beasts
Candido Portinari1955
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Contour lines. Feline study standing in profile to on the left with stained body, occupying the entire width of the support. Behind the animal sees outline three cats from the front, protruding heads that are up and open jaws.
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Details
- Title: Wild Beasts
- 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: 1955
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w13 x h12cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:Animals:wild animal
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 315
- Inscription: Inscriptions on reverse "traversa [sic]” and "cruzada”. On reverse, calculations and random lines, possibly made by the artist; authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 240” and "Nº 627”.
- Function: Study for the panel War [FCO 3799]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3641
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