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Title
Portrait of Mário de Andrade
Description
Composition in blue (predominant), ochre, rose, earthy, black, red and white tones. Smooth texture with some marked brushstrokes. Bust of a man occupying almost the entire area of the support, landscape in the background with large stripe of sky. The portrayed is facing forward, slightly off to the right, has black hair combed back, with a few gray hairs in the chops, broad forehead indicating early baldness, thick arched eyebrows, almond-shaped dark eyes, straight nose, closed thick lips, accentuated prognatism, square chin with a dimple in the the center and thin neck. He wears blue shirt with a half-open collar and marked armhole. In the background, on the left, a hovel, having a lamppost ornated with guirlanda of flowers wrapped around the base and a flag flying on top. On the right, suggestion of a road in diagonal left to right, going toward the back, with five indicated figures bottom composition indicated with five figures walking in line one behind the other. Sky in gradient blue with five balloons.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
About Person
Mário de AndradePerson
Related Event16
Related Document149
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Preservation Number
Obra tombada sob o nº 386.
Collection
Height
73.5
Width
60
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom left "PORTINARI 935"
Annotation Exhibition
On stretcher, torn labels "[MU]SEUM [illegible] Drive – New-York” and "SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART – EXHIBITION – PORTINARI ARTIST – PORTINARI TITLE – MARIO DE ANDRADE Nº 3038.41 DATE IN 6/3/41 [illegible] [L]ENDER Mario de Andrade [illegible] [A]DDRESS Rio de Janeiro”; inscriptions "Nº 1”, "29” and "UNIVERSIDADE DE S.P. 1856”.
