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Title
Coffee
Description
Composition in ochre, blue, green, rose, white, and black earthy. Resulting rough texture crackle. Coffee loading It depicts, with five workers and a settler. In the foreground, on the left, settler sitting on the floor in profile to the right, with outstretched and legs apart, arms resting on his lap and barefoot. He wears blue headscarf and long dress and long sleeves rose. To the right, a little further back, slightly turned to the left man carrying a bag in the back, with no defined facial features and wearing tight clothes. In the background, cut the on the left edge of the composition, eight sacks stack. A little to the right, wood trunk cut diagonally. In the center, two coffee heaps on the floor, one after the other. On the right behind the man carrying the bag, more than three sacks stack. In the third level, four workers group: the on the left standing in profile to the right, has the on the right arm extended, wearing a hat and long boots. Others are curved forward in the act of filling the bags. Blue band on the horizon.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Themes
Function
Artwork Function
Small-scale color sketchArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting Coffee [FCO 1755]
Support and Technique
Authenticity
Certificate
536
Collection
Collection
Dimensions
Height (cm)
44
Width (cm)
47
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom left "PORTINARI 37"
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