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Title
Dead Boy
Description
Composition in yellow, orange, blue, green, lilac, white, rose and black. Precise strokes, dashed parallel and scrapes. Group of seven people mourning the death of a child. On a cloth represented by parallel dashed lines in various directions, nude boy extended horizontally with the head to the left. It is squalid, has stripped the body with very thin limbs and swollen bellies, head up, eyes wide. At his feet, on the right, skinny dog in profile standing to the left. Beside the extended figure, from the left to the right: profile bent old on the right, leaning on a cane, with the hand, standing, a young man who sustains him by the arm; woman with lined face and eyes wide, sitting in front with his hands resting on his knees having behind his on the right shoulder a girl's head; Man standing with his back, with his head down: woman kneeling 3/4 on the left with hands on her face and little girl sitting on log with elbows on knees and hands supporting his head expressing desolation. Background dotted yellow watching on the top on the left, circle representing the sun.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event10
Related Document9
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
colored pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
1081
Height
28
Width
35
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "Portinari 55"
