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Pot of Flowers

Candido Portinari1942

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones, white, gray, green, yellow and black. Thick texture. Vase of flowers occupying the center of the composition, earthyed in the area in gray tone against blue background. The vase is clear with dark dots regularly distributed vertically, has oval shape with narrow neck where it leaves a tuft of flowers are seeing: six white chrysanthemums, suggested other blue flowers and some outlined leaves. Where the vessel is supported is seen on the left, the suggestion of a leaf and two small fallen flowers, on the right, a circular shape also suggests a flower. Might falling from the left of the composition creating shady area in the vase on the right. Mine near the base of the vessel defines the beginning of the composition of the fund is in blue.

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  • Title: Pot of Flowers
  • 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: 1942
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w60 x h75cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:flowers
  • Technique: tempera
  • Signature: Signed and dated in top right corner "PORTINARI 1942"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 987
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1666
Projeto Portinari

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