FCO-2979

Circle Dance

[1956]

code

FCO-2979

CR Number

3991

dimensions

26 x 35.5 cm

Art Form

Drawing

Art Medium

India ink pen

Artwork Surface

Bristol board
Is Part Of

EMPTY LABEL

Title
Circle Dance
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, and quickly dashed superimposed. Composition representing wheel playfully amid the courtyard of a kibbutz. The wheel consists of eight girls and one boy. Girls wear dresses and skirts have represented hair. Of that face they see is suggested facial features. Almost all are with one foot raised and the other resting on the floor, as if they were jumping and dancing. The eight figures are holding hands and bent arms. The boy is on the left with the body almost back and head almost from the front and with the legs wide apart. In the background, on the left, vertical lines and eight semicircular suggesting agricultural machine. On the right cylindrical representing an area surrounded by grain silo beams that are on the floor (probably some cereal already cut).
General Info
Work executed in Brazil upon the artist's return from Israel. The inscription registers the location that inspired the work.
Related Event5
Related Document13
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
Bristol boardArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
33
Height
26
Width
35.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed at bottom right "Portinari Israel". Undated

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