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Children Playing

Candido Portinari1940

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in earthy, blue, gray, white, black and green. Smooth texture. Composition representing boys playing leapfrog and boy with trap in arid landscape with hill in the background. In the foreground, on the left, dark-skinned boy in profile to the left, with the upper body leaning forward and wearing gray clothes. Above him, in the air, a boy facing forward with both arms and legs spread. He has a round face, frown, big eyes looking forward, nubian nose, and full lips closed. He wears gray clothes patterned with small red dots. Still in the foreground, on the right, a dark-skinned boy sitting on the floor facing forward. It has a round face, dark hair, big eyes wide apart, nubian nose, thick and closed lips. He has arms outstretched, rested on his legs, which are spreadholds in his hands a trap that is between his legs. In the background, arid land with a large hill in the background, almost in triangular shape, where dark squares and small trees that suggest a slum can be seen. Deep blue sky clearing downwards up to a white stripe near the horizon. On the right, slightly greenish moon.

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  • Title: Children Playing
  • 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: 1940
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w100 x h80cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play:leapfrog, Brazilian Culture:children's games:toys:bird trap, Nature:landscape:metaphysics, human figure:child:boy, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 1940"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2536
  • Inscription: On stretcher, piece of label from the Museum of Modern Art.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1204
Projeto Portinari

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