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Title
Boy with Sheep
Description
Composition in gray, green, ochre, yellow, orange, rose, earthy, blue, white and black. Smooth, slightly thicker in the figure, marked and spatula strokes. Composition representing boy sitting on the floor holding a baby goat and occupying the central area of the composition; floor represented in shades gray with a large clump on the left of the figure, a mountain in the background, on the right and sky indicated in a tone of blue-green. The boy is sitting in front, has fallen head slightly to the left and toward the on the right, toward the young goat. It has dark and short hair, facial features suggested, stained surfaces and thin neck. Is flexed with the on the right arm, holding her hand to the back of young goat's neck and on the left the front, as if the caress. wears short-sleeved shirt, composed of geometrical areas in yellow tones and pants rolled up, also consisting of geometrized in ochre, orange and yellow. It is with the on the right leg bent and the foot flat on the floor on the left stretched on the ground, revealing the sole of the foot in bluish tones, as if dirty. The young goat is standing with his back, turned toward the boy. With the head is slightly raised is displayed coat tail and ears and suggested in light and dark tones, giving volume to the animal body. The floor is indicated in gray tones, seeing himself on the left a huge clump whose center comes out a flower and boulders, through the boy's legs. The floor is demarcated in shades earthy, suggesting projected shadows of the thicket and the boy's body, from a light falling from from the on the left. On the horizon, cue elevations, two smaller on the left and further on the right. The sky is green-bluish high.
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Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Height
54
Width
64
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 54"
