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Title
Boy with Top
Description
Composition in earthy, white, gray, ochre and black tones. Smooth texture with marked brushstrokes. Bust of a boy wearing a paper hat and spin top in hand appearing to be sitting in a high-backed chair. The boy is near the edge to the left, has a small face, brown hair and facial features outlined, suggesting to be looking toward the top that is resting on the palm of his left hand. The boy wears a pyramid-shaped paper hat and shirt in dark earthy tone with long sleeves. Appears to be sitting in a chair's backrest with wooden beams with two vertical and two slightly curved downwards horizontally. Background of the composition is smooth white to reddish tone ground area at the middle of the figure's chest. Light falling from the left of the composition illuminates part of the boy's face, and we see a shadowed area on the left cheek and neck.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event18
Related Document95
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
65
Width
54
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 1947"
Annotation Exhibition
On reverse, inscription "Coleção Castro Maya”; labels "Exposição de Milão-Itália 21/3 a 21/4/1963” and "Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro 6/1953”.
