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Small Chest and Calabash
Candido Portinari1946
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in yellow tones, blue, white, gray and earthy. Smooth texture. Gourd and trunk occupying the center of the area of the composition. In the foreground, chest diagonally, and behind gourd lighter shade. Ground dark, representing the horizon and sun in the upper on the right half of the composition.
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Details
- Title: Small Chest and Calabash
- 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: 1946
- Physical Dimensions: w25 x h32.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: diverse:recurring elements:trunk, diverse:recurring elements:gourd
- Technique: gouache
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 90
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscription by Maria Portinari "997 B”.
- Function: Study for the painting Chest and Gourd [FCO 3993]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2487
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