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title: "Dragon Birds and Man, Chico da Silva by Claudionor, painting"
description: "Dragon Birds and Man, Chico da Silva by Claudionor. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 90 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Dragon Birds and Man

![A bearded gray-haired man among flying birds confronting a large green dragon on a yellow ground. Dragon Birds and Man, Chico da Silva by Claudionor, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-067/chico-da-silva-by-claudionor-dragon-birds-and-man-undated-acrylic-on-canvas-60x90cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-067-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting set against a flat bright-yellow ground with small blue cloud forms along the lower edge. At the upper left a man with a long white beard and flowing gray hair, draped in pale robes, extends a bare arm toward the right. Surrounding and below him is a swirling flock of stylized birds with curving wings and long necks, their bodies patterned in green, orange, blue and red with fine concentric striping and scattered eye-spots; their wingtips end in spiky black feathers. On the right side looms a large green serpentine creature with a toothy open jaw, spined crest and a single round eye, its scaly body coiling downward. The composition reads as a dynamic confrontation, all forms tightly outlined and densely textured across the open yellow space.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Claudionor](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 60 x 90 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Dragons](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/dragons/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-067](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-067)
- **Article:** [Claudionor, the Draughtsman](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/claudionor-the-draughtsman/)

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza
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 Claudionor, “Dragon Birds and Man”. Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-067

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-067/manifest.json)