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title: "Birds Snakes Caiman and Insects (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Birds Snakes Caiman and Insects (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 74 x 109 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Birds Snakes Caiman and Insects

![A tall tree trunk at center surrounded by birds, a serpent and a lizard on a warm orange ground. Birds Snakes Caiman and Insects, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-062/chico-da-silva-by-baba-birds-snakes-caiman-and-insects-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x109cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-062-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting organized around a thick reddish-brown tree trunk that rises vertically through the center, dotted with small insects and spiders and with a thin snake coiling at its base. To the left stands a tall long-legged bird with red legs beside a small green sapling, with another long-necked bird and a small perched bird above it. At the upper center and right, birds fly and perch, while a large serpent with an open fanged mouth and a red-spotted body curves down the right side. A spiny lizard or iguana crawls across the lower right, and a small spotted crocodile-like creature lies at the lower left. The background is a warm field of orange and yellow with combed radiating strokes. A small signature appears in the lower center.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2006
- **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-062](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-062)
- **Article:** [Babá, the First Disciple](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/baba-the-first-disciple/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-062-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, 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 Snakes Caiman and Insects” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-062

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-062/manifest.json)