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Title
Mountain of the Sermon
Description
Composition in black and white. Rapid, overlapping and parallel lines. Composition representing the open lanscape, with undergrowth in the foreground and background and background hill with construction on top against smooth sky with sun shining on the right of center. In the foreground, profusion of lines in different directions, representing vegetation. In the background, low vegetation, suggested by parallel strips of vertical and inclined risks representing a type of grass, interspersed with white stripes suggesting spines. On the third level, the mountain, the highest on the left side, all filled with numerous features, and on the top on the left, triangular area representing high and on the right vegetation, domed building with circular dome and columns. Background smooth with large sun on the right from the center of the composition, represented by ball with some risks in diverging lines in various sizes defining rays.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
Work executed in Brazil upon the artist's return from Israel. The inscription registers the location that inspired the work.
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Height
25
Width
35
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed and dated in top left corner "Portinari Montanha do Sermão 56"
Annotation Others
On back of frame, label "106 Portinari, Candido 1903-1962 Montanha do Sermão desenho a nanquim as. dat. sup. esqu. 36 x 37”.
