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Title
Scarecrow
Description
Composition in blue tones, rose, white, ochre, orange, green, violet and black. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing scarecrow, which occupies the center of the stand area. The scarecrow is mounted on sticks rounded cross-shaped; He has the head tones rose with facial features suggested slightly stuck in the upper end of the support, leaving visible part that serves as a neck. It has the body and members represented in white cloth with blue spots, and the arms are down and his legs apart. The floor is represented by geometrical overlapping patches in various shades, succeeded by broadband in rose tone and close in blue where the on the right appears in Moon crescent. To the left of the scarecrow, narrow vertical strip cuts the composition and changes tone when it passes from one area to the other.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Height
47
Width
38
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINAR[I] 60" and on reverse of support "PORTINARI 60"
Annotation Exhibition
On back of frame, label "Museu de Arte Moderna-MAM. Exposição ‘Colecionadores das Arcadas’ colecionador: Antônio Leme da Fonseca Filho Obra Espantalho – Portinari”. On stretcher, torn label "Museum of Modern Art [illegible] 73”; inscription "1858”.
