Dragon Birds Fish and Snake

Dragon Birds Fish and SnakeChico da Silva by Babá · 2006 · Acrylic on canvas
A large scaled dragon with a long spotted tail against a yellow ground. Dragon Birds Fish and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a bright yellow ground. At the center stands a large dragon facing left, its rounded body covered in layered blue, green and purple scales, with a spiky red sunburst mane around its open fanged jaws at the left. Its tail extends to the right as a long pink-and-cream band marked with rows of red-ringed eye-spots, ending in a feathery plume in the upper right. The creature stands on clawed feet over a pale blue-green lower zone suggesting water or ground, where small fish swim in the lower center and lower right. Above, three small crested birds fly across the upper left and upper center. A slender brown tree with red marks rises along the right edge. Handwritten text sits at the lower right.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2006
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
74 x 99 cm
Motif
BirdsFishSnakesDragons
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower right
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-045
Article
The Instituto Oboé and the Pirambu Revival

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»
The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, in the lower right corner.

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)

Chico da Silva by Babá, “Dragon Birds Fish and Snake” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-045

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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