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title: "Birds Snakes and Insects (2005), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds Snakes and Insects (2005), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 74 x 109 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds Snakes and Insects

![A scaled bird on a branch with a coiling serpent against a yellow ground. Birds Snakes and Insects, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2005, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-040/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-snakes-and-insects-2005-acrylic-on-canvas-74x109cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-040-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a golden-yellow ground patterned with faint wavy bands. On the left a large bird with a blue-and-green scaled breast and a striped multicolored body perches on a brown branch that runs across the lower portion. From its body rises a long pale neck topped by a fanged crocodilian head at the upper left. To the right, a long sinuous serpent with a red crested head winds across the center and curls into a large rounded shape filled with feathery red, blue and green markings in the upper right. Smaller crested bird-heads and a flying creature appear in the upper center and upper right. A green pine-like sprig grows from the branch at center, and small red blossoms dot the branch and lower corners. The lower edge carries bands of orange, brown and yellow stripes.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2005
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 74 x 109 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 BABA, lower center
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-040](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-040)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2005-jcc-040-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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

## 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 Snakes and Insects” (2005). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-040

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-040/manifest.json)