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Title
Boy Crying
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, dashed and intersecting lines. Composition representing boy standing in front, hands on his face occupying almost all stand upon the right against white background. The boy is squalid, has excessively long arms folded with intertwined hands holding kind of cloth covering his face. It has oversized belly is naked from the waist down looking up sex, have legs apart, on the right foot and on the left profile with just your fingers on the floor, almost opposite. Quickly dashed near the foot suggests the horizontal plane where the boy is standing.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the panel War [FCO 3799]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
chipboardArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to cardboard.
Collection
DestruídaCollection
Height
18.2
Width
11.2
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom left "Portinari 55"
Annotation Others
On reverse, inscription "Nº 355”.
Status
DestroyedVisual Artwork Status
Notes Status
Work destroyed in the 1980s in a fire at owner’s residence.
