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title: "Bird and Fish (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Bird and Fish (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 74 x 109 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Bird and Fish

![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.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-055/chico-da-silva-by-baba-bird-and-fish-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x109cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-055-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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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](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2006
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 74 x 109 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower center
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-055](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-055)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-055-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*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)](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/#license)

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.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-055/manifest.json)