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Title
Composition with Two Figures and Chest
Description
Composition in red shades, black, blue, earthy, yellow, white and green. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing two women indicated by dark lines, sitting and inserted into irregular colored areas that blend into the background. At the center, fat black figure sitting in front of what would be a crate. Pixains have long hair and facial features indicated, wears tight dress to the knees. Has fallen arms in her lap, legs spread and bare feet. In the longitudinal direction, it is on the right half of the illuminated area on the left half and shadow tone area in earthy as well as the inside of the on the right arm and leg. In the lower on the right half of the composition, another woman from the front, sitting with hair suggesting being pixains, arms along the body, large breasts and legs apart. In the upper half of the composition bag of tin-plate, blue, closed, diagonally on the left to the right, front to back. The fund is represented by colored irregular areas, seeing the top on the left corner, yellow area with black lines suggesting the leaf of a window; behind the figure of the center, clear rectangle and on the right, two areas filled by points. Other areas in shades of green, red, yellow, black, white, blue and earthy complete the composition.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event
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Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Preservation Number
Obra tombada sob o nº 72.52.32.
Collection
Height
38
Width
46
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 1939"
Annotation Family
On reverse, inscription by Maria Portinari "OB”.
Annotation Others
On stretcher, label from Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / MAC-USP; inscription "8F”. On back of frame, another label from MAC-USP; inscriptions "500.000” and "MAC-USP 72.52.32”.
