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Hand of Prospector
Candido Portinari1941
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Lines defining contours and shading setting volumes. Open hand cupped at the center of the stand area. On the right hand diagonally from the left to the right and from top to bottom. It is represented with only suggested pulse, rather creased palm, thumb to the left and the four bent fingers. In the palm, hint of gold nuggets. Plain background.
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Details
- Title: Hand of Prospector
- 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: 1941
- Physical Dimensions: w30.5 x h39cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:workers:prospector, human figure:limbs:hand
- Technique: charcoal
- Signature: Signed and dated at bottom left "out.1942 Portinari"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 2647
- Notes: Work is dated 1942, but was actually made in 1941, when the mural paintings for the Library of Congress were made.
- Inscription: Inscription at bottom left "Estudo para o mural ‘ouro’ Biblioteca do Congresso Washington”
- Function: Study for the mural painting Mining of Gold [FCO 3768]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1579
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