General Info
Title
Rubber Trees
Description
Composition in green tones, blue, earthy, gray, orange, ochre, yellow, rose, red, white and black. Smooth and rough texture resulting from support, and built by figures colored pasta. Rubber plantation It depicts with men, animals and details of rubber trees trunks with incisions for rubber extraction. Men foreground disposed throughout the length of the width of support, in various positions. Most of them have represented the skin dark red tones. None has represented facial features and all wear geometrical colored clothes. The floor, the rubber trees and background are also geometrized. On the left back man, half-kneeling, pointing shotgun toward a tapir which is at the bottom. More to the right, man riding horse in profile to the right. To the left of center, three men group near where rubber is one earthyed toucan. In the center, six-man group at various positions, especially down figure with hat covering his face and rubber pellet oven and on man climbing rubber. To the right of center, another group of five men in various positions near two rubber, the larger of the composition. On the right oven, Figure inclined with hat and, at the bottom, two rubber making incisions in the trunk of a tree.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
About
Themes
Function
Artwork Function
Small-scale color sketchArtworkFunctionType
Executed toArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Small-scale color sketch for the panel Rubber Trees; not executedWork designed to decorate the headquarters of the Banco da Amazônia, Belém, PA
Support and Technique
Collection
Collection
Dimensions
Height (cm)
22,3
Width (cm)
54
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right edge on paper to which work is affixed "Portinari 57"
Annotation Others
On back of frame, label from Cosmorama store.
