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title: "Fish (1973), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Fish (1973), Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Fish

![A large open-mouthed fish baring white teeth among smaller fish and palm leaves. Fish, Chico da Silva, 1973, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-017/chico-da-silva-fish-1973-acrylic-on-canvas-50x70cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-017-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-017/chico-da-silva-fish-1973-acrylic-on-canvas-50x70cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-017-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a black background centred on a large fantastic fish with gaping red-rimmed jaws lined with pointed white teeth and a dark forked tongue. Its body carries blue and grey scaling, white fern-leaf motifs and rows of coloured dots, ending in a fan of pastel scallop-shaped fins. Two smaller striped fish with big eyes swim to the left, surrounded by feathery green palm fronds that radiate across the scene. Fine white hatching details the fins and leaves in the naive folk style, with the white signature and date at the lower right.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1973
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 50 x 70 cm
- **Motif:** [Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FDZILVA, lower right (reversed S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-017](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-017)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1973-jcc-017-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, in the lower right corner. The S is reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”.*

## How to credit

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

Chico da Silva, “Fish” (1973). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-017

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-017/manifest.json)