General Info
Title
Harvesting Potatoes
Description
Composition in the earthy tones, gray, green, ochre, white and black. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing It depicts with women harvesting potatoes, occupying the central area of the composition; soil represented in shades earthy with green spots and small strip of sky in shades with greenish moon suggestion. In the foreground, extremely fat woman on his back, his body bent forward, taking the ground with his on the left hand a huge potato gray tones. The figure wears light clothing that you mark the prominent buttocks and lets you see barefoot, which blend with the floor. In front of another woman, covered partly in the same attitude. The floor is shades of earthy, with suggested stones and green clumps indicated. Basically, small strip of sky in greenish tones, lighter near the horizon, with a half moon suggested in the center of the composition.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Themes
Support and Technique
Dimensions
Height (cm)
80
Width (cm)
100
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 1940"
Annotation Exhibition
On back of frame, label "Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Mam Retrospectiva: do Modernismo a Bienal colecionador: Oscar Americano Endereço [...] Telefone Obra: Portinari Candido, Colhendo Batatas 1940, óleo s/tela 80 x 100”.
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