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Portinari

American  
[pawr-tee-nah-ree] / pɔr tiˈnɑ ri /

noun

  1. Cândido 1903–62, Brazilian painter.


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Prints by Portinari, who is well known in Brazil but not a household name globally, rarely top $20,000, according to auction database Artnet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Portinari, who often painted rural workers and labourers, is one of the most significant Brazilian Modernist artists.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

The oil-on-canvas portrait is by Candido Portinari, and is the only portrait for which the wife of Argentine ruler Juan Peron is known to have sat.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022

They join Beatrice Portinari and Francesca da Rimini, the only two historical women from the "Divine Comedy" who had acceptable entries on Wikipedia prior to our work.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021

"She was named Beatrice, daughter of Folco Portinari, and he that praised her averred that whoso might wed her would be the happiest of mortals."

From The God of Love by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

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