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Title
Woman with Rooster
Description
Composition in blue tones, earthy, gray, black, red, ochre, rose and violet. Thick texture and marked brushstrokes. Black woman sitting in front with a cock in her lap, occupying the entire area of support. The figure is with the body tilted to the right, head turned to the left and away legs. It has a round face, black hair confusing himself with the dark background, short forehead, big blue eyes, straight nose and full lips rose rimmed in black. On the right Shoulder represented by accentuating the line winding body volume on the left and on the right forming angles to the arm and elbow. Embraces a white rooster with red crest and papilha, who is in her lap, in profile to the right. wears dress had taken that fall-black and white plaid, long, leaving appear barefoot being the on the left resting on a square stool. Dark blue background looking to the left with kites rabiolas in the center the Tres Marias and on the right, two balloons in perspective for background. Might falling from the left.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event3
Related Document10
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Previous Collection
Galeria de Arte IpanemaCollection
Acervo Galeria de ArteCollection
Height
100
Width
81
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 1941"
Annotation Exhibition
On stretcher, label "Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Rio de Janeiro Exposição: Portinari (dez anos de morte) data: Junho 1972”.
Annotation Others
On stretcher, card with inscriptions "Portinari Candido oil on canvas 1941 Woman with a cock or shipwreck Collection: Nelson A. Rockefeller” and "Acervo Galeria de Arte cat. 061/80 21/04/80”. On back of frame, label "Galeria de Arte Ipanema nº 175/003/CRJ nome: Portinari Denominação: Mulher e Galo Dimensões: 100 x 81” and label from Artefact framing house.
