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Winnowing Coffee

Candido Portinari1948

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Predominance of outline lines. It depicts sifting coffee figures. On the left woman with the body leaning forward, with sieve in hands. In the center, front woman with arms stretched in the air holding sieve. On the right profile man to the left, with the body leaning forward, and suggesting sieve hands. At the bottom, parallel lines, vertically, may suggest houses or planting.

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  • Title: Winnowing 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: 1948
  • Physical Dimensions: w11 x h9cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Stamped signature at bottom right edge "Portinari*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 591
  • Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 372” and "Nº 514”.
  • Function: Sketch for the painting “Coffee Harvest” [FCO 3127]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2678
Projeto Portinari

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