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Boy with Sheep
Candido Portinari1955
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black tones, ochre, blue, red, green and white. Predominance of straight lines. Boy with sheep, seen from above, against plain background. To the left of the composition, sheep diagonally from the left to the right and from front to back. Beside her, boy kneeling with head bowed forward, holds hands with a kite. The boy's clothes and the ram of the body are represented by dashed parallel.
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Details
- Title: Boy with Sheep
- 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: 1955
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w18 x h16cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:toys:kite, Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:child:boy
- Technique: lead pencil , color crayon
- Signature: Stamped signature in bottom right corner "Portinari*". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 545
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
- Inscription: On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 756”.
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3459
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