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title: "Women and Fruit (2000), Ivan de Assis, painting"
description: "Women and Fruit (2000), Ivan de Assis. Acrylic on canvas, 98 x 54 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Women and Fruit

![Three seated figures behind a blue basin of cashew fruit, a fan of leaves rising at right. Women and Fruit, Ivan de Assis, 2000, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-083/ivan-de-assis-women-and-fruit-2000-acrylic-on-canvas-98x54cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-083-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A tall vertical painting of three figures gathered close together behind a bowl of fruit. The ground behind them is brushed in vertical stripes of dusty pink, slate blue and wine red, like weathered boards; two broad arched shapes in flat crimson, outlined in white, rise across the upper part like windows or an awning. At the centre a figure with an ochre face, heavy-lidded eyes and short black curls wears an olive-green shirt with an open collar, one long arm reaching down across the group. To the left, half hidden by that arm, a second figure is seen in profile, pale-skinned with the same dark curls, in a pale blue dress with a zigzag hem. At the right a third figure sits with bare shoulders and long straight dark hair cut in a fringe, knees drawn up, her body modelled in pink and white. In front of her, round green fruits are stacked one above another, the topmost crowned by a wide fan of long leaves in green and yellow. At the bottom of the canvas a pale blue basin holds four large cashew fruits in orange and yellow, each with its grey kidney-shaped nut at the end. Bare legs in pink and white fall to either side of the basin, and a yellow bench shows at the lower right.

- **Artist:** [Ivan de Assis](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2000
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 98 x 54 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** Ivan, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-083](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-083)
- **Article:** [Ivan de Assis, the Cinema in the Bestiary](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/ivan-de-assis-the-cinema-in-the-bestiary/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «Ivan»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/ivan-de-assis-signature-2000-jcc-083-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “Ivan”, in the lower right corner.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2000
2.  the artist's sister, gift
3.  João Cunha Collection

## How to credit

[Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/#license)

Ivan de Assis, “Women and Fruit” (2000). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-083

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-083/manifest.json)