Birds Fish and Snake

Birds Fish and SnakeChico da Silva by Babá · 2006 · Acrylic on canvas
A large scale-bodied bird on a branch surrounded by flying birds, snakes and fish against yellow. Birds Fish and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a pale yellow ground marbled with faint wavy lines. At the center a large bird with a green head and red beak stands on a thick diagonal branch, its rounded body covered in orange honeycomb scales above and dark blue-green feathers below, with a striped fan tail at the right. Several smaller birds fly across the upper portion, two of them feeding a fledgling near the upper left; another bird perches on a branch at the upper right. A brown snake coils along the branch at the lower left, and a school of small triangular fish swims through pale blue water across the lower left and lower center. Bare brown branches frame the upper right and lower right. Handwritten text sits near the lower center. The palette mixes warm oranges and yellows with cool blues and greens.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2006
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
74 x 100 cm
Motif
BirdsFishSnakes
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower right
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-044

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»
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)

Chico da Silva by Babá, “Birds Fish and Snake” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-044

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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