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Title
Major Archer
Description
Composition in black and white. Dark and straight lines areas. Representation of a Major Archer bust sculpture, giving bronze idea, with the head turned slightly to the right, on a rectangular pedestal imitating granite.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event
Related Document7
Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for sculpture; not executed
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to cardboard.
DN Number
12
Notes Collection
Work commissioned by Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maya for a monument in honor of Major Archer that was to be erected in the Tijuca Forest in Rio de Janeiro, which Castro Maya was restoring at the time.
Height
26.8
Width
15
Annotation
Stamped signature in bottom right corner "Portinari*". Undated
Annotation Author
Inscriptions, at top left, "85 cm”; at top right, "50cm”; in bottom half "1m50”
Annotation Family
On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "Nº 353” and "DN 12”.
