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Composition in brown tones (support), earthy, red, rose, blue, green, black and yellow. Smooth texture, marked strokes, oil on brown paper apparent in the background. Composition representing female figure down carrying child on his shoulders with fish in hand. The floor is checkered and background in brown tone support. The figure is almost forward, down, kneeling on the right leg and on the left foot resting on whose leg is also bent. The figure has long hair, played to the left side, thin eyebrows, big eyes, small nose, lips closed and long neck. Has bent arms and secure with hands child's legs that carries on his shoulders. Woman wears blouse represented by geometrical areas in rose and red tones and well baggy pants on earthy and ochre tones, and has bare feet. The child is just suggested, you have the arms facing left and secured by wire, a blue fish. The floor consists of grid in perspective for background and colored in red tones. Background in brown paper shades, with sparse brush strokes of light yellow.

Details

  • Title: Woman and Child
  • 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: w74.5 x h123cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:fish, human figure:child, human figure:woman
  • Technique: oil , lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2969
  • Notes: Support affixed to canvas.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Woman and Child” [FCO 4001]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2646

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