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Title
He Was Nothing More than a Criminal...
Description
Composition in orange tones, blue, yellow, green, gray, red, rose, black and white. Smooth texture. It depicts dead man under police official views, a half-breed and another man near the extended figure. In the foreground, man on the ground across the entire width of the composition, with the head to the right. It has greenish face, hair disheveled and wears geometrized clothes in blue and ochre tones with cartridge belt around his waist. Beside the dead, sitting fat figure front. It is round and red-faced, wide-eyed, black beard and mustache covering his face, on the right hand on the head and on the left lying in front of him. wears geometrized clothes in blue tones, green and earthy. In the background: on the left, mestizo and a police officer standing in front and to the right, big clump plant with indefinite features. Orange floor with gray areas and geometrized background.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event5
Related Document4
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 7 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 RIO 959"
