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Title
Maria Rosa and Her Friends
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines and quick strokes. Four figures representing figures with lanscape in the background, surrounded by jagged line. In the center of the composition, four dolls standing group: in front, a girl of curly hair, big eyes and other features just mentioned, using pendants and earrings Bahian dress; on the right, a little further back, in profile to the left, a black with big ribbon bow stuck in kinky hair, characteristic facial features of the race, on the left arm along the body holding a portfolio in hand and slip into the right leg, as if walking; a little further back, between these two figures, a coconut hat snowman, with the body covered by the front dolls; behind the whole group the head of a little clown. To the left of the group, child mounted on wooden horse, and more behind a small doll's arms and legs spread. On the floor on the right four clumps lined the front to the back and scattered stones. At the bottom on the left, the representation of two hills and on the right outline of a building.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration, not used, for the book Maria Rosa, by Vera Kelsey
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Height
20.5
Width
20.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
Annotation Others
On back of frame, barely legible stamp "AO QUAD[RO EL] EGANTE”.
