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Title
Portrait of Júlio de Mesquita
Description
Composition in green tones, earthy, black, ochre, white, blue, rose and gray. Smooth texture. Portrait of man, almost full length, sitting in front, occupying almost the entire support area, against dark background. The pictured has oval face, brown hair combed back with slight fallen tuft on the right side of his forehead that is wide; straight and thick eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes facing forward and upward, long nose, lips closed, voluminous mustache and chin straight. wear dark suit, white shirt and blue tie. The pictured is sitting on bench style empire, which are supported his arms, has hands forward and to secure the on the right a copy of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. Background with ground represented on earthy tone seeing on the horizon the hills to the left and broadband sky shade of green "degrade" dimming up to black. Might falling from the left of the composition creating shaded area on the left side of the portrayed.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
Work was made based on photos of two works portraying Júlio de Mesquita, one by Henry Royer and the other by José Wasth Rodrigues [DO 71, PR 6030]
About Person
Júlio de MesquitaPerson
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Art Form
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Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Height
116.5
Width
88.5
Annotation
Signed in bottom right corner "PORTINARI". Undated
Annotation Author
Inscriptions, in bottom right corner, "DE UMA [F]OTO” and at bottom right, "O ESTADO D”
