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Title
Two Men Talking
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines and straight. It depicts two men talking indoors. On the left, man, full length, standing in profile to the right. The face is just bypassed without defined facial features, seeing only two lines defining the long hair combed back. He's wearing jacket and shirt with "jabot", is bent on the right arm forward and on the right leg earlier than the on the left. To the right of the composition, another man standing from the front, slightly turned to the left; has the face with facial features just outlined and wears the same type of clothes that the other figure. He has the on the right arm bent with hand close to the chest, the on the left stretched down and slightly away from the body and legs apart. Both figures are in an enclosure, looking up, on the right part of a stamped part of a curtain and rests on the vessel would be a cube and on the left straight lines defining the corners of the enclosure.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event
3
Related Document
4
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 25 for the book O alienista, by Machado de Assis
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
14
Width
19
Annotation
Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari". Undated
Annotation Author
Inscription in bottom left corner "26”
