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Wolf
Candido Portinari1944
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, some shaded and support with cells for expansion with horizontal and vertical lines and diagonal lines suggesting tiles. Composition representing wolf lying on the legs, 3/4 facing right, head forward, and bulky tail.
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Details
- Title: Wolf
- 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: 1944
- Location Created: Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w25 x h12cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:Animals:wolf
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 176
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard, torn at top left.
- Inscription: Inscription in left half "5”. At bottom edge, inscription by Maria Portinari "Desenho de Candido Portinari, autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari DN 400 Nº 240”.
- Function: Small-scale cartoon for the tile panel Saint Francis of Assisi [FCO 2474]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1977
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