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Title
Preparing Burial in Hammock
Description
Composition in gray, orange, yellow, earthy, green, black, white and ochre. Thick texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing three men preparing dead to be buried, two women in desperate attitude and the background ox lying. To the left of the composition, dead man lying on the floor in vertical decúbido diagonally from the left to the right, you are on a network that is being prepared to be attached to a long stick. Two men crouched, facing each other, arrange the man on the network, a third holding the stick horizontally. On the right makeup two women back a kneeling with his arms up, and the other standing with arms folded over his face. At the upper left corner, ox lying 3/4 facing right. Ground and background in geometrical areas, looking up at the top of the on the right of the center circle suggesting sun.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Themes
Support and Technique
Dimensions
Height (cm)
150
Width (cm)
220
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Signed and dated in top left corner "PORTINARI 58"
Annotation Exhibition
On reverse, stamp "MINISTERIO DA EDUCAÇÃO E CULTURA MUSEU NACIONAL DE BELAS ARTES AUTORIZO O EMBARQUE Pacheco 23-5-958 [handwritten signature and date] RIO DE JANEIRO BRASIL”; inscriptions "PREPARANDO ENTERRO NA RÊDE 2.00 X 1.50 Nº 2”, "Sr. Vergara”, "63” and "MP”.
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