Bird and Fish

Bird and FishChico da Silva by Babá · 2006 · Acrylic on canvas
A large yellow bird with patterned wings striding across a pink and yellow ground among smaller creatures. Bird and Fish, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting dominated by a large yellow bird-like creature that spans most of the composition, its body curving from upper right toward the center. Its head, at the upper right, has a long curved beak and a slender crest, and a heavily patterned wing of teal, blue and brown scallops covers its back at the center. On the left a sweeping fan of fine combed lines in brown, green and ochre forms a long tail. The lower portion shows smaller orange and red fish-like creatures with trailing fins, one at lower left and another at lower right. The background is a wash of pink, lavender and yellow streaked with small red marks across the top. A serpentine patterned tail loops through the lower center.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2006
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
74 x 109 cm
Motif
BirdsFish
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower center
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-055

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»
The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, at the center of the lower edge.

Provenance

  1. The artist, Fortaleza, 2006
  2. Instituto Cultural Oboé, Fortaleza
  3. Leilão Montenegro, auction, 2025
  4. João Cunha Collection

How to credit

Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)

Chico da Silva by Babá, “Bird and Fish” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-055

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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