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Title
Wake
Description
Composition in green, ochre, earthy, gray, yellow, red, black and white. Texture unidentified. It depicts group on the right, with dead woman lying in bed and group of eight people around. In the center of the group, woman lying with her head turned to the left and on the right feet, with pillow and covered up to his chest with fabric in greenish color. The woman has dark complexion and has no definition of facial features. In the foreground, standing in profile woman to the left, with the on the right foot ahead to the left and on the left arm flexed. She has curly short hair, facial features and suggested wears short-sleeved dress, almost at the ankles and bare feet. In front of the bed at the time of the feet of the dead boy standing back to back, with his face turned to the left, using his shirt sleeves, shorts and bare feet. More to the boy's on the left, a round stool with three legs. Behind the bed, the other six front figures who have suggested facial features, dark hair and wear long sleeves and necklines flush with the neck. From the left to the right, front row, the first is a woman with long hair and wear clothes buff. Beside him, in the center, a tilted figure of the dead with clothes in gray tones. The third figure is a woman, with hair parted in the middle and wears yellow clothes. Behind has three men, one ahead, in the center, with gray clothes. One on the left, with clothes buff and the on the right clothes with reddish tones. Ground and background with geometrical areas.
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Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Artwork Function Description
Illustration no. 28 for the novel Cangaceiros, by José Lins do Rego
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PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
gouacheArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
support unidentifiedArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Coleção DesconhecidaCollection
Annotation
Signed in bottom right corner "Portinari". Undated
Status
Não localizadaVisual Artwork Status