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Title
Still Life
Description
Composition in earthy, yellow, orange, gray, rose, purple, red, green, black and blue tones. Thick texture, visible strokes. The composition represents a table with various objects on it, leaning against a wall. The table is of smooth and polished wood, in mid-toned brown and occupies almost the entire width of the support; to the right edge, we see its rounded edge. In front of the table, we see a folding part with suggested round or oval shape. On the table we see, from the left to the right: a lemon, an orange, a small rectangular painting with frame, presumably supported by a small easel, a cylindrical high-necked bottle (characteristic of the wine bottles from the French region of Bordeaux). Behind the bottle, attached to the wall, as if hanging, there is a kind of towel or cloth, finished with fringes, covering the upper right corner of the small picture on the table. This cloth crosses the composition vertically on the right side. At the upper left corner, one sees part of a picture hung on the wall, frameless, suggesting the representation of a nude. Light falling from the front of the composition lets one see a reflection in the varnish of the table.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
Work done by the artist in Paris after winning the European Trip Prize. In addition, he did a self-portrait [FCO 3156], two other still lifes [FCO 901, FCO 2867], two nudes [FCO 2635, FCO 3833], a portrait [FCO 5218] and three drawings [FCO 2514, FCO 2515, FCO 3673]. FCO 3833 is depicted in this work
Themes
Related Event6
Related Document25
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
woodArtworkSurfaceType
DN Number
971
Previous Collection
Height
35
Width
26.5
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "C. PORTINARI PARIS 930"
Annotation Family
On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "ON 971”.
Annotation Exhibition
On reverse, inscriptions "Pasta nº XXVIII” and "Nº 17”; traces of label from Galerie Charpentier; stamps from Ministério da Educação e Saúde – Museu Nacional de Belas Artes / MNBA, Gare Lyon-Bercy and Douane de Paris.
