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Title
Mother with Dead Child
Description
Composition in black tones, white, blue, rose and green. Contour lines, parallel lines, overlapping lines, colored in the limbs of the figures and dress of women. Composition representing back woman with child in her arms occupying almost the entire support area, with background filled by parallel vertical lines. The woman is kneeling, his back, his body bent forward, dark hair, dark dress represented by parallel lines in various positions and in some detail in blue. The child, squalid, is among the arms of the woman, and one can only see the head and the on the left arm and on the right legs and feet to the left. Has fallen head back, eyes wide, indicated nostrils, lips closed. Arm extremely thin colored blue and the suggested veins and legs too overly thin painted in blue and barefoot on green.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Artwork Function
StudyArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Study for the panel War [FCO 3799]
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
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Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Height
17.5
Width
15.5
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed at bottom left "Portinari"
Annotation Author
Dated in inscription at bottom right "guerra 55 onu”
Annotation Others
On back of frame, label "Rugendas Molduras Frei Caneca 569, S.P.”; inscription "B.253”.
