FCO-4447

The Dead IndianIllustration

1955

code

FCO-4447

CR Number

3439

dimensions

18 x 17 cm

Art Form

Painting

Art Medium

oil

Artwork Surface

paper
Mentioned By3

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Title
The Dead Indian
Description
Composition in gray, blue, earthy, ochre, white, rose and yellow. Texture unidentified. It depicts dead indigenous, placed in the network, to be transported. In the center of the composition, two indigenous lying on the ground, side by side, the on the left with the head to the bottom and the on the right to head forward. The Indian on the left, the facial features to see the soles of the feet and thong sentences using. Indian's on the right, you do not see defining the upper body, and at the bottom, is dressed in blue pants, hitting the shins. Holding the network at the ends, as if stretching her beneath the bodies of the dead, men inclined to the left and on the right. The on the left man is in profile to the right and wears blue pants. The on the right is almost opposite, slightly turned to the left and is more in the background of the composition. Ground with lighter geometric areas in the region where men are. On the front and bottom, darker geometric areas.
Related Event15
Related Document12
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 10 for the book “A selva,” by Ferreira de Castro
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to cardboard.
Height
18
Width
17
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 55"
Annotation Others
On cardboard, stamp from the Ministério da Educação e Cultura; inscription "[illegible]lováquia”.

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