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title: "Birds Fish and Snake (2005), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds Fish and Snake (2005), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds Fish and Snake

![Two tall wading birds and a serpent flanking a central pool of swimming fish on a yellow ground. Birds Fish and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2005, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-048/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-fish-and-snake-2005-acrylic-on-canvas-75x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-048-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting with two large wading birds facing inward across a central pale-blue pool filled with swimming fish. The bird on the left has a patterned body of red dotted with circles and a blue-and-orange speckled wing, its long neck curving up to a small head at the top. The bird on the right is rounded with concentric pink and red banded markings, its neck rising to a crested head. A long orange and red serpent loops across the upper center between the two birds' heads, and another red-spotted serpent descends at the right edge. In the center a cluster of small orange and blue fish swim among reeds. Green feathery foliage rises along both lower corners, and the upper background is bright yellow shading to a paler pool below.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2005
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 75 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)[Snakes](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/snakes/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA, lower left
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-048](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-048)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2005-jcc-048-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA”, in the lower left corner.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2005
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 Fish and Snake” (2005). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-048

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-048/manifest.json)