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Title
Abstract
Description
Composition in blue and white. Smooth texture, color areas and contour lines. Abstract composition of representation in various shades of blue featuring stronger thick line separating aquareladas areas and areas without paint. In the center area of the composition, grid area filled by diagonally, forming diamonds containing some points. In the center of this area other irregular means also circumvented by strong trait suggesting amoeboid shape. Other graphite thinner lines approximately defining the limits of the areas of aquareladas areas without ink around the support.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
non-figurativeSubject
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Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study, not used, for the tile panel Shells and Seahorses [FCO 1768]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Height
14.5
Width
20
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Family
On reverse, inscription by Luiz Portinari, the artist’s brother, "Guache de autoria de meu irmão Candido Portinari. Estudo de um painel representando o céu e o mar para o Ministério da Educação no Rio de Janeiro em 1942”; label from Artefact framing house.
