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Country Scene

Candido Portinari1954

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Straight lines and intersecting, lines and zigzag lines also shaded defined by intersecting. Coffee processing It depicts, seeing three men and one woman working, another woman with child in her arms, a sheep and a horse. In the foreground to the left, front woman with the upper body leaning. She has her hair tied in a bun and secure hands a sieve. To your on the right, you see a bag of coffee and open to his on the left a mound of coffee beans. On the right man standing in profile to the left, with the upper body leaning holding a rake that is ahead, he suggests be pulling for himself a mound rest of dirty coffee beans. To the left of this figure, lamb lying profile to the left with your head up and stretched front legs. A little further back, to the left, disproportionately small woman, standing, front, carrying on his on the left arm and holding a child with the on the right, a backpack rests on your head. In the background, on the left, standing man in front, carrying the massive head bag of coffee, and also horse standing and facing. To the right of center, Profile man on the right with the upper body leaning down; he has his arms stretched forward is packing a bag of coffee on a pile already tidy. Next the bags are seen on the ground, a gourd and acreage in perspective for background with scarecrow stuck in the middle. The bottom on the left shows an open field with hill on the horizon.

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  • Title: Country Scene
  • 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: 1954
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w55 x h37cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:farm hand, Brazilian Culture:scarecrow, Nature:Animals:sheep, Nature:Animals:horse, human figure:child, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: charcoal, lead pencil
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1234
  • Inscription: Signed and dated in dedication at bottom right edge "Para o Raymundo, com o abraço de 1954 Portinari”
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3279
Projeto Portinari

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