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“Nonna” Packing Mangoes

Candido Portinari1956

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Predominance of sinuous lines. Woman boxing It depicts sleeves. In the foreground, on the right of center, having the woman sitting in front of a box and spread around sleeves. In the background, on the left of center, large hose with two figures holding long sticks trying to pluck fruit from the tree and on the right stacked crates of suggestion. In the background, to the left, continuing mango grove.

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  • Title: “Nonna” Packing Mangoes
  • 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: 1956
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w19 x h19cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:packing mangos, portrait:the artist's family:grandmother, human figure:group, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 958
  • Function: The figure seated in the center of the composition is Maria Sandri Torquato, the artist's maternal grandmother
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3844
Projeto Portinari

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