General Info
Title
The Psychiatrist
Description
Composition in black and white. Straight, fast and tangled lines. Composition representing man's head as if hostel in a street looking up to the left a wall with barred window. The head is at the center of the composition. The face is elongated, short hair, broad forehead marked, wears round-rimmed glasses was seeing behind the lenses thereof, small eyes turned down, hooked nose, lips closed, mustache and beard. When viewing suggestion bottom wall up, on the right, three small rods and vertically aligned with trace suggesting rays. On the left, a little to the front of the head, the wall would be a corner barred window behind which sees girl's face with wide eyes suggesting terror expression.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
About
Themes
Function
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 77 for the book Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas, by Machado de Assis
Support and Technique
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Dimensions
Height (cm)
27,5
Width (cm)
20
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "Portinari 943"
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