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Title
Woman Crying
Description
Composition in green tones, red, black, white, gray and blue. Contour lines, dry brushstrokes, diluted gouache and marked white paint strokes, especially overlapping the background. Representantion of an Old woman's half-bust crying, occupying almost the entire area of the composition against background in ochre-reddish tones and light green. The figure is forward facing, has dark and short hair, sharp face of bluish tones, filled with features that suggest many wrinkles as well as the neck. She has a short forehead, drooping and baggy eyes, where they shed two "tears of stone"; small nose, thin lips, closed and drooping; deep jaw; quadrangular chin, thin and long neck. She wears dark green shirts, marked by black lines and texture of white paint strokes. In the background, behind the figure, geometrized area in ochre-reddish tone and sides in light green tone, both marked by white paint strokes.C169
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Art Form
PrintArtFormType
Art Medium
monotypeArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to cardboard.
Height
35
Width
24.5
Annotation
Signed and dated in top left corner "Portinari 948"
Annotation Exhibition
On back of frame, label "Galeria Bonino Autor Portinari Título ‘Mulher Chorando’ Medida 0,25 x 0,30cm Procedência Atelier do artista”; inscription "BR-341 74”; label from Artefact framing house.
