Candido Portinari

The First Mass In Brazil
graphite on paper
1956
34 x 16 cm
signed lower left
Signature stamped on the bottom left margin "Portinari". no date. I study for the panel "The First Mass in Brazil", a work commissioned by Thomaz Saavedra, then president of Banco Boavista, to decorate the bank's headquarters, a project by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, Rio de Janeiro. Cataloged in the Portinari Project under the FCO record: 404 Cr: 2658. reproduced in the artist's Raisonné, vol.ii on p.218. Certificate of Authenticity of Projeto Portinari nº 1300. On the back, authentication and inscriptions of Maria Portinari "DN 140" and "Nº 508". He participated in the exhibitions: Portinari, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, 1953; 30 Drawings by Portinari, Center for Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 1987; Portinari: Retrospective, Art Museum of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 1997-1998; Candido Portinari. in the circle of light. At Asa do Sol, curated by Jacob Klintowitz from March 27 to May 13, 2023, Galeria Frente, São Paulo. p.111.

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