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Title
Woman Crying
Description
Composition in blue, green tones, earthy, gray and black. Smooth texture with visible brush strokes on the hands and part of clothing. Bust of woman crying occupying the entire area of support. Figure faces with expression of pain and trembling in the hands and face with deliberate represented significant deformation: closed at the chin on the right and on the left half-open head height. It has a long face, arched eyebrows down, eyes wide with thick "stone tears" falling cheeks, long, broad nose in the semi-open nostrils and mouth. wears headdress with darker edging the head, the kind used by nuns, and clothing, also trimmed, it is close to the neck, with darker drape that goes down from his on the left shoulder. Slightly geometrized background in shades of earthy and ashes.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event4
Related Document9
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to wood.
Previous Collection
Height
81.5
Width
66.5
Annotation
Signed and dated in top left corner "PORTINARI 1947"
Annotation Others
On stretcher, inscription "Carneiro PP of Couro [illegible] Mold. Freg”.
