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Title
Mother and Daughter
Description
Composition in black tones, white, blue, ochre-red and gray. Contour lines, overlapping lines, shaded and deleted. Kneeling woman hugging a girl standing, occupying almost the entire height of the composition. The figure on the left appears to be a girl, standing almost 3/4 toward the on the right, with curly and long hair, facial features indicating despair. It's on the right arm clasping the mother's waist and his on the left hand on her mother's neck. wears sort of white tunic and is bare foot on the right. On the right, kneeling female figure in profile to the left, black hair tied in a bun, suggested facial features, on the left arm bent, holding the shoulder of the girl and on the right hand on the waist of the same. wear white robe with drape defined by gray areas which appear erased areas. Is barefoot, the foot on the fingers on the floor and filled with numerous lines in ochre-red. Blue square area skirting the figures.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event7
Related Document14
Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the panel War [FCO 3799]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
67
Previous Collection
Height
39.5
Width
28.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari"
Annotation Author
Dated in inscription in bottom left corner "guerra V 55”. Inscription on back of frame "Estudo para ‘guerra’ O.N.U.”
Annotation Family
On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "Mãe e filho 76 1/2 x 51”.
Annotation Exhibition
On back of frame, inscriptions "Nº 2” and "80 mil”; printed inscription "Bainbraid Board Trate Number 80 22 x 30 or 30 x 40 single or Double Tichk Charles T. Bainbraindge sons’ Brooklyn N.4.”; stamp "Paris Expositions Douanes”.
