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Title
Working Couple
Description
Composition in black and white. Straight, intersecting, shaded and scraped lines. Worker with girl in her arms, in plantation lanscape. In the foreground, in the center, Profile man on the left carrying a girl on his lap. This vest short-sleeved shirt, pants at the time of the shins and wears straw hat. The female figure in profile to the right, seems to have a rag on his head, on the left arm around the man's neck and fell on the right arm along the body. To the left, a little deeper, curved worker forward, head down, wearing a hat and holds in his hands a hoe. On the right tuft of vegetation. In the background, to the right, a thatched house. At the bottom many intersecting lines represent vegetation, seeing the on the left figure of a woman with child on her lap. All figures are black and represented without facial features.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Document
Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the engraving Working Couple [FCO 826]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
crayonArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
29
Width
17.5
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right edge "Portinari 59"
Annotation Author
Inscription at bottom right "ESTUDO PARA AGUA FORTE”
