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Title
Boy with Trap
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines. Boy sitting with trap between his legs, looking to the background railway and train passing. In the foreground on the left, long curved branch with flower at the tip and perched bird. On the right, boy sitting on the floor with straight legs and open, including a trap handling is seen with his hands. He has suggested facial features, wears collarless long sleeve shirt, pants, whose on the right leg seems to be rolled up or cut above the knee braces and is barefoot. In the background, across the entire width of the support, around fence posts and three strands of wire behind which we see the railway which is passing to the right, a train consists of three wagons and locomotive whose chimney is leaving smoke plump .
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the drawing Childhood [FCO 4057]
Front/Back
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Preservation Number
Obra tombada sob o nº 72.52.36.
Collection
Height
19
Width
23.7
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Author
Inscription at top left "406”
Notes
Signature not authentic.
