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title: "Fish and Bird (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Fish and Bird (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 110 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Fish and Bird

![Two intertwined long fish or sea serpents densely patterned in red and teal on a pale ground. Fish and Bird, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-059/chico-da-silva-by-baba-fish-and-bird-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-75x110cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-059-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting of two large elongated fish-serpent creatures whose bodies coil and intertwine across the entire surface. The upper creature stretches from the left with a finely combed feathery tail and curves to a toothed open mouth at the upper right. The lower creature fills the center with a densely patterned body of teal, red and purple eye-spots and scale lines, its fanned fins flaring in red and orange. A small bird with a long beak hovers at the upper right facing the mouth, and a smaller striped fish appears at the lower left. The background is a soft wash of yellow and green with feathery green strokes along the lower edges. A small signature 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:** 75 x 110 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-059](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-059)
- **Article:** [Babá, the First Disciple](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/baba-the-first-disciple/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-059-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR”, 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, “Fish and Bird” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-059

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-059/manifest.json)