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Title
Woman and Child
Description
Composition in brown tones (support), earthy, red, rose, blue, green, black and yellow. Smooth texture, marked strokes, oil on brown paper apparent in the background. Composition representing female figure down carrying child on his shoulders with fish in hand. The floor is checkered and background in brown tone support. The figure is almost forward, down, kneeling on the right leg and on the left foot resting on whose leg is also bent. The figure has long hair, played to the left side, thin eyebrows, big eyes, small nose, lips closed and long neck. Has bent arms and secure with hands child's legs that carries on his shoulders. Woman wears blouse represented by geometrical areas in rose and red tones and well baggy pants on earthy and ochre tones, and has bare feet. The child is just suggested, you have the arms facing left and secured by wire, a blue fish. The floor consists of grid in perspective for background and colored in red tones. Background in brown paper shades, with sparse brush strokes of light yellow.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Artwork Function
Small-scale color sketchArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting Woman and Child [FCO 4001]
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
lead pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to canvas.
Height
123
Width
74.5
Annotation
Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
