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title: "Fantastic Fish (2025), Garcia, painting"
description: "Fantastic Fish (2025), Garcia. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Fantastic Fish

![A fantastic fish, its body a mosaic of patterns, with a small head on a long spotted neck. Fantastic Fish, Garcia, 2025, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-082/garcia-fantastic-fish-2025-acrylic-on-canvas-40x50cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-082-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-082/garcia-fantastic-fish-2025-acrylic-on-canvas-40x50cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-082-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a ground of loose diagonal strokes, orange and yellow above, pale blue and pink below. A single large creature fills the canvas. Its body is a mosaic of patterned panels: a brown disc at the upper right ringed with teardrops around a white and red eye, a pale blue field of blue hearts, a magenta panel with a four-petalled flower, an orange band of soft brushwork, and a patch of golden beads. Broad fins in green, blue and red striations spread from the top, the bottom and the left, and a tall crest of orange and black stripes rises along the left edge. At the right, jaws lined with black and pink teeth open on a dark spotted neck that extends outward and ends in a small red head with two round yellow eyes.

- **Artist:** [Garcia](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2025
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 40 x 50 cm
- **Motif:** [Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** Garcia, lower left
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-082](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-082)
- **Article:** [Garcia, the Last Disciple](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/garcia-the-last-disciple/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «Garcia»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/garcia-signature-2025-jcc-082-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “Garcia”, in the lower left corner.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2025
2.  João Cunha Collection

## How to credit

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

Garcia, “Fantastic Fish” (2025). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-082

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-082/manifest.json)