Projeto Portinari

In 1951 Portinari began to work on painting the three panels for Cia. Equitativa de Seguros de São Paulo.

Works commissioned from the artist by Ambassador Sofia Cantalupo to cover the flags on the doors of the dining room of the Italian Embassy,...

Two tile panels made to decorate the facade of the Gustavo Capanema Palace, Stars-of-the-Sea and Fishes, Shells and Hippocampus. The Peixe...

Portinari executed ten paintings to illustrate leaflets for the Silva Araújo Roussel Laboratory

In 1943, Castro Maya commissioned four panels from Candido Portinari to decorate the chapel that was being restored, based on a project by...

"In 1940, the director of the North American Library of Congress, the poet Archibald MacLeish, invited Portinari to create an emblematic...

The set of works on Brazilian Economic Cycles, which decorates the courtroom of the Palácio Gustavo Capanema, is composed of twelve fresco...

At the beginning of the 40s, Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho was invited by the then Municipal Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek to design a set of...

At the invitation of Itamaraty, Portinari began creating a model of the War and Peace panels to decorate the UN headquarters building in...

Layout of the screen: FCO4125 and FCO5549 - São Miguel Archangel (left), FCO4126 - São João Batista (center) and FCO4127 - São Pedro...

One set and costume were created by Portinari. Ballet presented by the Ballet of the IV Centenary of São Paulo at the Municipal Theater of...

At the beginning of the 40s, Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho was invited by the then Municipal Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek to design a set of...

Work carried out to decorate the dining room of Homero Souza e Silva's residence, in Rio de Janeiro, designed by architect Carlos Leão.

Em 1946 Portinari spends January and February in Brodowski. During these months, he makes a series of drawings of the children in his home...

Five works are part of this general OC, for other works: see OC11 (Chapel of "Nonna") and OC54 (Three fresco tests).

Layout of the screen: FCO1444 - Jesus (center), FCO2987 - Saint Francis of Assisi (left), FCO2988 - Saint Mark (right).

Eight panels were created, commissioned by Assis Chateaubriand, to decorate the headquarters of Rádio Tupi in São Paulo, and donated in...

In 1932, when he finished his Architecture course at the University of the Federal District, Alcides Rocha Miranda suggested that the 36...

Portinari executou 4 pinturas para ilustrar o programa de Joujoux e Balangandans. Joujoux e Balangandans foi uma fantasia em dois atos, de...

In 1936 Portinari was invited by Gustavo Capanema to decorate the building of the then Ministry of Education and Health, probably on the...

At the request of the Commission for the works of the Mother Church of Batatais, Portinari painted a set of paintings for the side chapels...

Two tempera mural paintings, executed to decorate the auditorium of the Gustavo Capanema Palace, School of Singing and Choir.

In November 1952, Revista O Cruzeiro began publishing in chapters the novel Os Canganceiros, by José Lins do Rego, with 35 illustrations...

Portinari paints Capelinha da Nonna, in Brodowski, in one of the rooms of the family house, for his grandmother Pellegrina. The saints that...

In 1944 he began painting the panels that make up the Retirantes Series. The works Enterro na Rede, Criança Morta and Retirantes were...

Project for the Serenade Ballet scene, the show was staged between June 5th and July 6th, 1941 at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro...

In 1941, the Original Ballet Russe, directed by Colonel Wassili de Basil, toured Latin American countries. Preserving the tradition of...

Portinari created 30 illustrations for "True description of a country", by Hans Staden, which were rejected by the publisher.

Set of three panels commissioned to decorate the dining room at the residence of Maria do Carmo and José Thomaz Nabuco. All the animals...