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Title
Death of the Author
Description
Composition in black and white. Predominance of straight lines. Burial It depicts, rain in the cemetery. In the center of the composition, group of ten men, standing, three of which are side by side, back, nearly edge-on to the left. The others are facing, facing left. All dress coat, with two holding open umbrellas. Before the group on the floor, you see a coffin on the left diagonally to the right and front to back with a garearthy of flowers at one end. A plan below, on the left, man standing figure, facing the group holding in his on the right hand a paper and on the left arm raised. Cemetery with graves represented, cypress trees and crosses standing out as details: on the right, statue of a kneeling angel on top of a grave; and the lower on the right corner, two cylindrical columns. In the background hills bordering the cemetery on which rain falls represented by straight lines that converge in the center of the composition.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event11
Related Document19
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Original illustration, on a loose page, for the book Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas, by Machado de Assis
Art Form
PrintArtFormType
Art Medium
etchingArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Matrix Description
Plate made of copper, 27.7 x 19.1 cm.
Collection
Height
26.5
Width
19
Dimension Notes
40x28.5 (S)
