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Title
Don Quixote
Description
Composition in yellow tones, gray, black, blue, earthy, orange and rose. Colored areas and dashed. It depicts Sancho Panza mounted on donkey watching Don Quixote standing with spear and shield in hand, against yellow background. On the left, Sancho Panza forward with arms at the chest and face turned toward Don Quixote. He is on the right, standing in front; using dark armor, the on the right arm is stretched to the side with the shell and secure kind of thin lance hand, the on the left arm is bent and a long boom vertically secured with one end resting on the ground. Her legs are apart and slightly bent and your feet are out. Slightly ahead of the two figures in the center of the composition, Profile white horse to the back on the left slightly back with his head down and almost in front as if grazing. Background with irregular dotted yellow tone looking to the right hint of orange sun. Around the figures are seen rectangular areas suggesting shadows.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Document3
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration for the book Don Quixote by Cervantes, which was never published
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
485
Previous Collection
Dan GaleriaCollection
Height
21.5
Width
15.5
Annotation
Stamped signature at bottom right edge "Portinari*". Undated
Notes
When the Portinari Project visited the work in 1981, it had a dedication in the bottom right corner "Para o caro amigo Oliveira Lima com o abraço de Portinari", which was erased by the conservator in 1999.
