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Title
Composition with Face
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, intersecting, straight and winding. Not figurative composition looking up at the center, man's face. Winding and intersecting lines forming areas suggesting network and tangles form the background against which we see 3/4 man face to the left; the hairs are not visible, the forehead is marked, the eyebrows are thick and tangled, eyes are very wide facing left, coarse nose, thin lips parted and covered chin by the on the left hand of the figure that appears to be serving to support the head . Hand sees the thumb, index and middle ends and void. To the right of the composition, the center sees an open on the right eye facing forward.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event6
Related Document13
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration for cover of the book O alienista, by Machado de Assis
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
India ink brushArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
17
Width
20.5
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 944"
