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title: "Dragon Birds Fish and Snake (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Dragon Birds Fish and Snake (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 74 x 99 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Dragon Birds Fish and Snake

![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.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-045/chico-da-silva-by-baba-dragon-birds-fish-and-snake-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x99cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-045-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-045/chico-da-silva-by-baba-dragon-birds-fish-and-snake-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x99cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-045-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

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](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2006
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 74 x 99 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)[Snakes](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/snakes/)[Dragons](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/dragons/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-045](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-045)
- **Article:** [The Instituto Oboé and the Pirambu Revival](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/instituto-oboe/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-045-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*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)](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/#license)

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.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-045/manifest.json)