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title: "Cockfight (1972), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Cockfight (1972), Chico da Silva. Gouache on canvas, 60 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Cockfight

![Two ornately patterned roosters facing off over a leafy branch, bordered by a wavy marbled band. Cockfight, Chico da Silva, 1972, gouache on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-074/chico-da-silva-cockfight-1972-gouache-on-canvas-60x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-074-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

Two roosters face each other in profile across a small flowering branch, set against a flat golden-yellow ground framed by a wide, wavy band of marbled color in pink, red, green and blue. The rooster at left has a dark red comb, a body patterned with dense teal-and-red dots and a sunburst medallion, and a long tail of rainbow stripes sweeping down. The rooster at right has a swirling dotted crest and body in red, gold and green tones, with a scalloped green-striped tail and dark banded legs. Both stand on slender clawed legs, feet splayed on the yellow ground.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1972
- **Technique:** Gouache on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 60 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Roosters](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/roosters/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FOZILVA, lower center (reversed D and S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-074](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-074)
- **Article:** [The Murals of Praia Formosa](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/murals-of-praia-formosa/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1972-jcc-074-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FOZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. The D and the S are reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”. Beside it sits the painter's thumbprint.*

## How to credit

[Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/#license)

Chico da Silva, “Cockfight” (1972). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-074

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## Also on Wikimedia

-   [Wikidata item](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140868636)
-   [File on Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chico_da_Silva_-_1972_-_Cockfight_-_Gouache_on_canvas_-_60x100_cm_-_Jo%C3%A3o_Cunha_Collection.jpg)

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-074/manifest.json)