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Title
Coffee
Description
Composition in tones earthy, ochre, green, gray, rose, black and white. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing coffee harvest It depicts with six figures in various attitudes, amid stacked bags and coffee hills. In the foreground, on the left, female figure, seated in profile to the right floor. It has long sleeve dress. He is standing with hands in the middle of the open legs and have bare feet. On the right man standing in front with his arms raised, resting on the head of a sack. wear light clothing dug sleeves, is with slightly advanced on the right leg and has bare feet. Behind him, on the left, stack eight sacks, center, lot of coffee in greenish tones and on the right, three more stacked bags. In the background, on the left, man standing, almost in profile to the right, wearing hat, light clothing, dark boots, with his on the right arm stretched to the right. In the center, two standing figures, one with curved body to the right and the other to the left. The on the left holds a bag in his hands and the on the right is hidden by another figure suggested by blight, delimited by lines in shades earthy that suggests his hat and arms. Basically, geometrized area gray, and green earthy.
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Candido PortinariPerson
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Small-scale color sketchArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting Coffee [FCO 1755]
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
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canvasArtworkSurfaceType
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Height
40
Width
45
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
