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Boys with Sheep

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, blue, green, red, yellow, orange and earthy. Rough texture across composition obtained through incisions in the pictorial layer probably the brush handle. Composition representing two boys planting banana and lamb lying on the right; background composed of geometrical areas and green textured sun on the left. To the left of center, boy planting banana tree, upside down, on his back, resting his on the right hand on the floor and the raised on the left, as if that balance the body twisted and fallen legs to the right. He has dark hair and wears orange yellow blouse and short pants. On the right, boy, also planting banana back with his head down. Has both hands flat on the floor is with your body straight and your legs bent down. He has dark hair and wears blue shirt and yellow shorts. Going forward, on the right, lamb lying on the floor in profile to the left, with the coat suggested in greenish tones, stretched front legs and later bent, back of head, as if he were watching the boy on the right. The ground and the sky merge in quadrangular spots in ochre tones, textured by parallel incisions forming geometrical figures. In the top on the left circle in green tone, suggesting sun.

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  • Title: Boys 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: w65 x h54cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play, Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 3297
  • Inscription: On back of frame, inscription "Pintor Portinary Moldura nº 8 Branca”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3456
Projeto Portinari

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