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title: "Bird and Insects (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Bird and Insects (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Bird and Insects

![A crested long-beaked bird with a striped shell-like body beside a leafy tree and a round green canopy. Bird and Insects, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-052/chico-da-silva-by-baba-bird-and-insects-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-75x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-052-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a pale blue and green ground showing a large crested bird at center-right with a long red-and-yellow beak and a rounded body banded in concentric stripes of green, gray and yellow, resembling a shell or armadillo. Behind and above it rises a round tree with a dense yellow-green canopy on a thin trunk. At the left a tall triangular pine-like tree grows upward, hung with small insects, a yellow winged figure and red beetles among its branches. Small bees and winged insects scatter across the upper area, and a turquoise circle and red curved line rest on the grassy lower ground. The foreground is filled with short green grass strokes, and the lower right is washed in yellow.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2006
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 75 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Insects](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/insects/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower left
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-052](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-052)
- **Article:** [The Instituto Oboé and the Pirambu Revival](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/instituto-oboe/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-052-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, in the lower left corner.*

## 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 Insects” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-052

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-052/manifest.json)