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Title
Orphan
Description
Composition in green tones, rose, gray, blue, and red earthy. Rough texture, marked strokes. Background against boyish figure treated with abstract-geometric shapes in bright colors. Boy is facing, standing, occupying the central area of the composition. Brown hair, arm, hands, legs and feet squalid. Barefoot, naked from the waist down, holding the end of his shirt with both hands that hid his face. The pictorial treatment of the boy and the bottom of the body is in rectangles and squares of various colors superimposed. Transparency effects resemble stained glass.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
Work depicts figure similar to the one in right center third of the panel War [FCO 3799] and was made two years after the panel was completedThe artist repainted the background of this work, which was originally uniform and in subdued tones
Themes
Related Event9
Related Document27
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
896
Height
100
Width
80
Annotation
Stamped signature in bottom left corner "PORTINARI*". Undated
Annotation Exhibition
On stretcher, inscriptions "Menino Órfão 1.00 x 81”, "26 PORTINARI” and "XAVIER DA SILVEIRA”; label "col. Dr. Mem Xavier da Silveira ‘Órfão’ 1.00 x 080 óleo Exposição em Milão – Itália de 21 de março a 21 de abril. 58"; stamps "MINISTÉRIO DA [EDUCAÇÃO E SAÚDE] MUSEU NACIONAL DE BE[LAS ARTES] Autorizo o Embarque G. Pacheco 23-5-958 [signature] Rio de Janeiro – Brasil”, "DOGANA MILANO – I.I. -”. On reverse, extremely faded stamp that seems to be from the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. On back of frame, label "Fink lote cx 28 São Paulo”.
