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Title
The Mothers’ Wrath
Description
Composition in black, blue and white tones. Contour lines. Composition representing women with children and mass of animals. On the right, two women kneeling depicted with deliberate significant deformation. One is in profile to on the left with defined facial features seeing extremely long neck, breast and belly fallen suggesting pregnancy. Have their fallen and on the left arm stretched on the right up and holding in his hand an open umbrella almost horizontally. Around him, three children find themselves drafted as if they were protecting. Further to the right and back, another woman also almost kneeling in profile to the left, having defined facial features and extremely long neck. It is as if hugging to protect two children who are outlined ahead. To the left of the composition, heap seeing is part of what would be an animal wound long tail mythological, man's misshapen head with wide eyes and mouth showing little teeth a dead chicken with tumbled neck and the seat of a cart that is fallen with the broken wheel. In the background, building suggestion.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the panel The Last Bulwark [FCO 2736]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
colored pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
DN Number
529
Height
24
Width
33
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Family
On reverse, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "Desenho de autoria de Candido Portinari, autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari” and "DN 529”.
