General Info
Title
Shantytown
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, precise strokes, dashed parallel and shading. It depicts slum represented by three hills seeing to the Copacabana lanscape background with buildings and hills in the distance. In the foreground, three hills traverse the entire width of the composition, geometrized in dark areas and parallel dashed representing buildings. In the center, half-bust of a woman a window, on the left a small figure. Further down in the center, three women diagonally from the right to on the left and front to back with cans of water on the head and on the right three figures side by side. The figures are represented by two triangles and fine members. On the left, you see the sea with buildings lined skirting the seafront and the background hills.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
About
Themes
Support and Technique
Dimensions
Height (cm)
34.5
Width (cm)
49
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "Portinari 57"
Annotation Others
At bottom left edge, embossed and upside down "SHOLLE [illegible]”, cut in half by the frame's frieze.
Relations
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