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Title
Girl with Flower
Description
Composition in tones earthy, ochre, blue, black, white, gray and red. Smooth texture. Girl holding a flower, against lanscape of hills. The girl is mulatto, is at the center of the composition, standing, facing, holding his on the right hand across his chest, a stylized flower. The figure is depicted with deliberate expressive deformation: big and round face, stocky body and hands and feet increased. It has a gray ribbon with red dots on top of the head, black, smooth and long hair, facial features marked by black lines, no neck representation. wear light-colored dress, pleated, long sleeve with scattered black dots. Light dress contrasts with the dark tones of the rest of the composition and the light falling from the right, form a shady area around the face on the right and the girl's body. On the floor to the left, a bauzinho leaves the tin blue, placed vertically; on the right an element that suggests that a rope and more ago, two mounds that look like stones. Girl in front of some fallen stones on the ground. At the bottom on the left, a hill surmounted by two wires which bind to a species of broad portal where the die is inserted and in whose base there is a fence bit set. In front of this, a cylindrical shape which seems to be hung by a thread. In the center and on the right of the hill, two rectangular light areas at the top and some bright dots. In the background, on the right, a larger hill, with little sparse detailed houses and a more defined on the base. Blue sky.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Art Form
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Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Height
81
Width
65
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 1938"
Annotation Others
On back of frame, label from Artefact framing house; inscriptions "112) Nº 8 [illegible] TAVARES 167 MARF + FP 383 OF+ [illegible] MARF 2 213” and "PORTINARI”.
