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Winnowing Coffee

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, green, earthy, blue, rose, gray and yellow tones. Rough texture. It depicts six figures working on a coffee plantation. In the foreground, on the left of center, kneeling man in profile to the left, ahead of him there is a dark area suggesting a coffee mound; he Wears straw hat, holds in his right hand a rake horizontally and on his left a bundle of undefined plants. In the background, on the right of center, man standing facing forward, with a bowed head, wearing a straw hat, holds in his hands a coffee bag, which is resting on the floor, to his right, a dark area suggests other coffee mounds and to his left, several bags stacked. On the third level, to the left, a human figure back facing is suggested; on the left of the center, man standing in profile to the left wearing a straw hat, his torso leaning down and holding a pan with his hands, which is over an open coffee bag; in front of this bag a small dog lying in profile to the right is seen, in the center, a man back facing back, his upper body leaning forward, using a straw hat; on the right of the center, a woman is standing facing forward with her head tilted back and spread legs, she holds in her hands a sieve, which she Wears to toss coffee up, vertically forming a dark cloud. In the background, on the left, coffee plantation with plants symmetrically arranged symmetrically and a plantation high and clear behind; a little more to the right, a diagonal path, left to right, is suggested, from front to the back. Way of suggestion on the left diagonal to on the right, front to the bottom; in the center and on the right part of a coffee plantation with symetrically distributed plants.

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  • Title: Winnowing Coffee
  • 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: 1957
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w146 x h115cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 57"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1041
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4129
Projeto Portinari

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