Mentions
Is Part Of
EMPTY LABEL
Title
Coffee
Description
Composition in ochre, earthy, gray, green, white and blue. Smooth texture with visible brush strokes. Color was used to serve as a road map in the execution of mural by setting only, large colored areas. The figures are only outlined with no defined facial features. The composition is bagging It depicts and bags of coffee transportation. In the foreground, on the left, woman sitting on the floor, profile to the right, legs stretched forward, hands in her lap. On the right front man holding bag of coffee back, wear light clothing sleeveless. In the background, on the left, sitting behind the settler nine bags of coffee stacked coming to the top edge of the composition. In the center, two dark areas suggesting coffee mounds. On the third level, on the left, foreman figure, almost on his back with his on the right arm stretched forward, and on the right suggestion three little figures defined, sloped working. Below the color project, which is pasted on card, see to the left, scale numbered colors, and on the right design for transportation picture to mural Coffee - Economic Cycle.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event
17
Related Document
12
Artwork Function
Small-scale color sketchArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting Coffee [FCO 1755]
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
gouacheArtMediumType
lead pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
229
DN Number
694
Collection
Previous Collection
Height
70
Width
50
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Author
Numbers on image correspond to numbers in color scale
Annotation Family
Montage by the artist on cardboard. Numbers throughout image correspond to scale of colors located at bottom left. At bottom right, photograph of the cartoon "Coffee” [FCO 5340]. On reverse of cardboard, authentication, and on back of frame, inscription "DN 694,” both by Maria Portinari.
