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title: "Birds (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 74 x 110 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds

![Several long-legged birds and peacock-like creatures spread across a warm yellow and orange field with foliage. Birds, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-057/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x110cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-057-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-057/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x110cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-057-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting filled with several elongated bird figures over a warm yellow and orange ground. At the center stands a large bird with a rounded body marked by a row of orange crescent scales and a spotted teal border, balanced on thin legs. To its right a second bird with a patterned blue and purple body and a tall red crest faces right, with a small green sprig of foliage between them. At the upper left a peacock-like bird with a long combed tail flies downward, and a smaller red and teal bird with radiating tail feathers perches at the far left. A small crested bird appears at the upper right. The surrounding background is streaked with combed bands of pink, blue, orange and cream.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2006
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 74 x 110 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower center
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-057](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-057)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-057-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, “Birds” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-057

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-057/manifest.json)