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Title
Fallen Angel
Description
Composition in dark shades of black, earthy, blue, gray and green tones and violet. Smooth, thick, marked strokes. Composition representing an angel, with deliberate expressive deformation, playing the flute, against background of geometrical areas in dark tones, some filled by dotted. The angel is with the head of front and profile body to the right. Seems to be crouching, has bent on the right leg, knee and on the right foot to the left. The figure is depicted with deliberate expressive deformation, has a round head, bulging eyes, big nose marked by dark triangular area, black lips that touch the white flute, holding hands turned to the right. The wings are very large and misshapen, with plumage suggested wildly. The background consists of dark geometrical areas, especially a green-gray amoeboid area in the lower on the right half. Some of the geometrical areas are filled with symmetrical dotted in contrasting tone with the background.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Art Form
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Height
100
Width
80
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 944"
Notes
Work signed and dated later by the artist. The work was photographed with no signature or date on exhibition at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes of Rio de Janeiro in 1943 [AFRH 339].
