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title: "Birds and Insects (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds 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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# Birds and Insects

![Three crested long-necked birds perched on the spreading branches of a single tree against a pale yellow sky. Birds and Insects, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-047/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-and-insects-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-75x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-047-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting showing three large crested birds standing on the branches of one tree that rises from a brown mound at the lower center. Each bird has a long curving neck, a tufted crest and a broad rounded body patterned with dense markings. The bird on the left has a body of red and brown with white star or flower motifs and long trailing tail plumes. The central bird is heart-shaped in orange and red with a white feathered chest. The bird on the right is green and patterned, with a smaller bird tucked at its side. Slender green pine-like fronds branch out at left and right, and winged insects and a butterfly hover in the upper center. The background is washed in soft yellow grading to pale blue at the edges, with wavy striations along the lower border.

- **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 right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-047](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-047)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-047-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, in the lower right 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, “Birds and Insects” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-047

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-047/manifest.json)