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

![Large pale long-necked birds, small bright birds and a wavy serpent against a fiery orange and red ground. Birds and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-051/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-and-snake-undated-acrylic-on-canvas-75x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-051-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting set against a streaked orange and red ground worked in fine flame-like hatching. At left two large pale long-necked birds with speckled white bodies stand close together, their slender necks and pointed beaks raised; a third small white bird stands below them at the lower left. A long wavy serpent snakes vertically through the center of the composition. At the right a tall brown segmented tree trunk rises, with a red bird perched on a horizontal limb to its left and another small bird at the upper right. To the right of the trunk hang clusters of fine drooping lines and small star-like flowers in red. A dark gourd or pot shape sits at the lower center near the base of the trunk.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 75 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Snakes](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/snakes/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-051](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-051)

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza
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 Snake”. Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-051

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-051/manifest.json)