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Title
The Clearing
Description
Composition in yellow tones, black, blue, green, earthy, white and violet. Design colorful whole, contour lines, quick strokes and dashed. Clearing a group of black occupying almost the entire area of the composition. From the left to the right: Old sitting, head turned to the left, white hair and beard, closed on the left eye, wearing white clothes with rolled up pants; woman standing in front, carrying child on her lap and wearing kind of long robe; woman standing in front, arms along the body, hand in hand with nude boy at his side and man sitting, head resting in hand, wearing white clothes. All are barefoot. In the background, on the left, kind of blockhouse and on the right one bananeiral seeing is a bunch of bananas.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study, not used, for the painting The Clearing [FCO 4443]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
colored pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to fabric.
Height
23
Width
20.5
Annotation Author
Signed and dated in dedication at bottom left "Para a Senhora Maria Leonor [illegible] Leão, homenagem de Portinari 55”
