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title: "Birds (2007), Chico da Silva by Claudionor, painting"
description: "Birds (2007), Chico da Silva by Claudionor. Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds

![Two facing peacock-like birds, one fanning a tail of red-and-blue eye-spotted plumes, on yellow. Birds, Chico da Silva by Claudionor, 2007, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-070/chico-da-silva-by-claudionor-birds-2007-acrylic-on-canvas-70x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-070-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting showing two large birds facing one another against a warm yellow ground that lightens toward blue stippled sky at the top. On the right a peacock-like bird stands with its tail spread into a wide spray of long plumes radiating upward and outward, each plume tipped with a red-and-blue teardrop eye-spot; its body is blue-gray with fine speckling and a small red crest. On the left a second bird in profile, with a red-and-white striped body, open beak and crest, leans toward the first. Both stand on thin legs above a strip of green grassy tufts along the lower edge. The palette pairs bright yellow and red with cool blues, and the plumage is detailed with delicate lines and dots throughout.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Claudionor](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2007
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 70 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA ZILVA / POR / CLAUDIONOR, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-070](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-070)
- **Article:** [Claudionor, the Draughtsman](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/claudionor-the-draughtsman/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA ZILVA / POR / CLAUDIONOR»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/claudionor-signature-2007-jcc-070-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA ZILVA / POR / CLAUDIONOR”, in the lower right corner.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2007
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 Claudionor, “Birds” (2007). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-070

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-070/manifest.json)