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title: "Birds (2005), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds (2005), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds

![Two large patterned birds standing on stones beside a central tree, with smaller birds above on a yellow ground. Birds, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2005, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-050/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-2005-acrylic-on-canvas-75x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-050-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting with two large birds standing symmetrically on either side of a slender central tree that rises from a dark mound at the lower center. Each bird has a long curving neck, a tall reddish leg and a broad rounded body filled with dense mosaic-like patterning. The left bird's body is dominated by a red domed area scrolled with white lines above a patchwork of blue, pink and orange cells, and its plumage spills outward to the left edge. The right bird is patterned in green, blue and red with a long pointed beak. Both birds perch on pale oval stones streaked with feathery markings. Above, several smaller long-beaked birds and a twisting braided form fill the upper register against a bright yellow sky. Green pine-like fronds sprout near the base.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2005
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 75 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO-DA SILVA / POR BABA, lower center
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-050](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-050)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO-DA SILVA / POR BABA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2005-jcc-050-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO-DA SILVA / POR BABA”, at the center of the lower edge.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2005
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, “Birds” (2005). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-050

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-050/manifest.json)