EMPTY LABEL
Title
General Obregon's Passengers
Description
Composition in gray tones, earthy, green, orange, black, red and blue. Smooth texture. Representation of a group of Mexican - two women, a child and two men - supported on the railing of the ship "General Obregon." The figures are front, side by side, having at its front, head down chickens. In the lower third of four chickens side by side hung upside down and tied by the legs on the ledge. In the central third, behind the parapet where chickens are tied, from the left to the right: two heads woman with black hair and side moths, slanted eyes, one of which carries a child in her lap; two men wearing a hat flap, supported on the ledge. In the background, lines and areas of grayish suggesting ship interior, looking to the right a lifeguard with the inscription: "GENERAL OBREGON".
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Related Event5
Related Document5
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 1 for the novel La Puissance et la gloire, from the book Romans, by Graham Greene
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Previous Collection
Librairie Gallimard adquirida do artista sob encomenda feita por Pierre Mathieu, diretor artístico da Editora, em 1959Collection
Height
25
Width
19
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 959"
