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Title
Girl in the Field
Description
Composition in blue, green tones, earthy, ochre, red, yellow, black and white. Contour lines, transparency effects and tapped dry brush. Girl occupying the center of the area of the composition, in the open with small hill behind. The girl is standing in profile to the left, walking. He has the head facing up and placed over the on the left shoulder. Face front, red hair and blue, long, curly with blue bows on her head. Dark eyes, broad flat nose, thick lips and closed. wear white dress printed with red dots sleeveless medium length, blue stripe diagonally through the waist and under the on the left arm that is along the body. Has legs apart suggesting that the figure is seeing walking to earlier on the left the on the right and bare feet. Girl rear on the right, Little Blue trunk, closed. Floor faded represented by strokes in tone and ochre earthy with sparse vegetation suggestion. In the background, hill and sky with clouds.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Artwork Surface
cardboardArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to wood.
Height
43.5
Width
36.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "Portinari 1940"
Annotation Others
On reverse, label "PORTINARI Candido ‘Brazilian Country Girl’ oil on Cardboard 1940 17 1/2 x 13 1/2', Coll. Dr. W.R. Valentiner DETROIT-U.S.A.”; inscription "Larg: 36 x 45 alt Portinari 1940 Col. CLAUDIO ESTEVES DE ARAUJO Rio de Janeiro Brasil”. On back of frame, inscription "64 ENT”; labels "PORTINARI, Cândido 19031962 63. MENINA NO CAMPO: óleo s. cartão colado em madeira, as. e dat. 1940 inf. esq. 45 x 36 63”, "63” and label from Artefact framing house.
