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title: "Birds and Fish (2007) · JCC-068, Chico da Silva by Claudionor, painting"
description: "Birds and Fish (2007) · JCC-068, Chico da Silva by Claudionor. Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds and Fish

![Long-billed birds above a big patterned fish, with schools of small fish below on a yellow ground. Birds and Fish, Chico da Silva by Claudionor, 2007, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-068/chico-da-silva-by-claudionor-birds-and-fish-2007-acrylic-on-canvas-70x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-068-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a bright-yellow ground that opens to pale-blue clouds across the top. In the upper area several birds with long slender beaks and outstretched wings face right, their plumage densely patterned in red, blue, green and orange with concentric lines and dots. Dominating the center-left is a very large fish seen in profile, its head turned left with a round eye and serrated mouth, its body striped and scaled in red, green and blue with rows of small pale fish swimming within a green band along its flank. Across the lower portion, schools of tiny stylized fish in blue, red, orange and green dart over the yellow ground. The work is warm and high-keyed, every form outlined and filled with meticulous repeating patterns.

- **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/)[Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA ZILVA / POR / CLAUDIONOR, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-068](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-068)
- **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-068-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 and Fish” (2007). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-068

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-068/manifest.json)