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Title
Dead Boy
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines and some shading. Scrawny dead body being of a boy being carried by two hands. The child is in the horizontal line of the support with the head to the left. He has an angular face and no hair, eyes closed and deep, and mouth ajar. The right arm is falling vertically. The hands that hold the body are facing up and we see the outstretched fingers. The right hand holds the child by the back and the left holds him by the legs. In the lower half of the support we see two photographs pasted.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event15
Related Document25
Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the panel Dead Child [FCO 2735]
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to wood.
Certificate
1314
DN Number
667
Height
69.5
Width
87.5
Annotation
Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
Annotation Family
In bottom half, montage by the artist: at left, photograph of the work "Dead Child” [FCO 2735]; at right, photograph of the work "Burial in a Hammock” [FCO 2734]. On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 667”.
