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title: "Birds Insects and Snake (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds Insects and Snake (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds Insects and Snake

![Fantastical long-tailed birds, a coiled serpent, beetles and insects on a tree branch over a bright yellow ground. Birds Insects and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-046/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-insects-and-snake-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-75x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-046-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a vivid yellow ground crowded with stylized birds, insects and a serpent. On the left a large plumed bird perches on a brown branch, its body striped in blue, pink and orange and its long fan tail streaming downward in feathered bands. Sweeping across the upper center is an enormous patterned form, like a leaf or wing, filled with red, green and orange scrolling lines and a network of fine outlines. At the upper right a slender bird with a long beak and trailing tail feathers stands above a large green and turquoise oval covered in dotted scale patterns. A spotted serpent winds horizontally across the lower center along a thick brown branch, near scattered beetles and a pineapple-like insect. Smaller birds and winged insects float near the upper edges. The whole surface is densely worked with fine parallel hatching in red, orange, blue and green.

- **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/)[Snakes](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/snakes/)[Insects](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/insects/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower center
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-046](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-046)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-046-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, at the center of the lower edge.*

## 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 Insects and Snake” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-046

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-046/manifest.json)