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General Info
Title
Washerwomen
Description
Composition in tones rose, earthy, ochre, blue, yellow, gray, red, black and white. Smooth texture with strokes marked in the figures. Representation of three washerwomen in arid lanscape with stream and sky in the background. In the foreground, a little on the right of center, woman figure almost full length, front, with his head and long hair hanging forward and to the right, covering up her part of the face. It has muscular arms bent with hands together at the waist, a garment rubbing against a plank resting on his body and out inside a vat in front. In the background, the center, another laundress partially concealed by the figure of the front, standing and facing with the head turned to the right, schematized facial features, wearing beret on the long, straight hair. Also rub of clothing against the board out of the tub before him. To the right, in profile to the left and leaning forward, black short-haired woman in a position who also washes clothes. Behind the washerwomen, geometric areas in darker tones that overlap the figures. On the left, arid earthy with three clumps and a few stones. On the right behind the black woman, light blue strip diagonally from the left to the right and front to the back like a stream full of rocks. Might blue sky.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Function
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 4 for the novel Cangaceiros, by José Lins do Rego
Support and Technique
Authenticity
Certificate
334
Dimensions
Height
30.3
Width
29.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
Annotation Others
On back of frame, inscription "Nº 31) PORT PP [illegible] 356 OF PAT BRASIL 397)”; handwritten label "MU/009”.
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