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Winnowing Coffee

Candido Portinari1948

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Curved lines, dotted lines and some boundary. Composition representing three figures working with coffee. The figures are all in the foreground. On the left, crouching woman from the front, with his head down, holding the sieve in front; the center, another woman standing also facing holding sieve with arms stretched upwards, as if playing the grains in the air to clean it. wear long skirt, blouse half sleeve and is barefoot. To the right of the composition, profile tiller to the left with his back bowed down and arms also down like grab bag of coffee that is on the floor in front of him. In the background, between the two female figures, open coffee bag; between the central figure and the farmer, a rake behind the tiller and an open staircase.

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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: w50 x h34.5cm 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: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "Portinari 1948"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4176
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription "Café”.
  • Function: Study for the painting “Coffee Harvest” [FCO 3127]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2679
Projeto Portinari

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