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Title
Boys with Sheep
Description
Composition in ochre, blue, green, red, yellow, orange and earthy. Rough texture across composition obtained through incisions in the pictorial layer probably the brush handle. Composition representing two boys planting banana and lamb lying on the right; background composed of geometrical areas and green textured sun on the left. To the left of center, boy planting banana tree, upside down, on his back, resting his on the right hand on the floor and the raised on the left, as if that balance the body twisted and fallen legs to the right. He has dark hair and wears orange yellow blouse and short pants. On the right, boy, also planting banana back with his head down. Has both hands flat on the floor is with your body straight and your legs bent down. He has dark hair and wears blue shirt and yellow shorts. Going forward, on the right, lamb lying on the floor in profile to the left, with the coat suggested in greenish tones, stretched front legs and later bent, back of head, as if he were watching the boy on the right. The ground and the sky merge in quadrangular spots in ochre tones, textured by parallel incisions forming geometrical figures. In the top on the left circle in green tone, suggesting sun.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Art Form
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Art Medium
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Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Height
54
Width
65
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 55"
Annotation Others
On back of frame, inscription "Pintor Portinary Moldura nº 8 Branca”.
