FCO-2405

Bird Vendor

[1959]

code

FCO-2405

CR Number

4458

dimensions

156 x 105 cm

Art Form

Painting

Art Medium

oil

Artwork Surface

wood
Mentioned By

EMPTY LABEL

Title
Bird Vendor
Description
Composition in blue tones, orange, gray, earthy, ochre, white, green, black and yellow. Smooth texture on the bottom, thick in the figures and wear spatula hats. A man and a boy carrying cages, taking up almost the entire vertical area of ​​support. The figures are thin, are standing, front, and side by side, with the boy on the right, slightly further back. Both wear wide-brimmed hat face up, looking be straw, where it realizes using spatula. The skin of the two is represented in earthy tone, coarse facial features marked by strong strokes with details in green and orange. Wear white long sleeve shirt and gray pants - the man worked with visible brush strokes in different directions, forming on the right geometrism with touches of green and yellow; the boy under thicker texture and slightly geometrized also has the on the right leg rolled up to the knee. The boy wears braces, which holds the on the left handle with your on the right hand. Both are barefoot, have legs apart and feet and hands represented in the same way that the face, that is, with well-marked strokes and touches of green. The man holds the cage with his on the left hand at the time of the thigh and has his on the right arm along the body. The cage is rectangular and has two orange birds inside. The boy also holds a cage with his on the left hand, and its smaller than the man with a blue bird inside. Background orange with three horizontal lines on the ground by cutting across the width of the support legs to the height of the figures and blue in the remaining 2/3 of the composition.
Related Event5
Related Document12
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
woodArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia doada em 1959Collection
Height
156
Width
105
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Others
On back of frame, inscription "59.51”.

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