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Title
Prodigal Son
Description
Composition in light shades of lilac, rose, earthy, blue, gray, ochre and white. Predominant and rough smooth texture on the tree. It depicts encounter between a woman and a boy instead what looks like a street alley with a tree and four extras. In the foreground, on the left half of the composition, woman standing in profile to the right, as if walking towards the boy dark kneeling in profile to the left, in front of her. To the right of the woman, leaning against his leg and also profile to the right, a girl standing, arms along the body, wearing a dress below the knee. The woman has the on the right arm and the boy outstretched on the left arm, toward each other, hands almost touching in the center of the composition. She wears lilac dress dug up the height of the shins and is barefoot. He wears white clothes stuck in the body and is also barefoot. On the floor behind the boy, one bauzinho leaves the tin. In the background, occupying almost the entire on the left upper support quarter, part of the facade of a house with a window in the upper on the left corner where a young woman, wearing a turban on his head, is like observing that the central It depicts. Below the window on the floor, rectangular container. At the back, the side of the house, two female figures represented in "esfumato" long clothes and with backpacks on the head, like washerwomen. At the upper right corner, a tree leafy and on his on the left rungs of a ladder. Might falling from on the central figures, on the right.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event4
Related Document12
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Coleção DesconhecidaCollection
Height
61
Width
72
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 937"
Annotation Exhibition
On stretcher, labels "Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. Rio de Janeiro. Exposição: Portinari (dez anos de morte) Data: junho 1972” and "L.P. ou Dew [illegible] Telefoon [illegible] Ligstenrestaurenen. Kazernestraat 114 a[illegible] Den Haag”.
