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title: "Fish Birds and Snake (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá, painting"
description: "Fish Birds and Snake (2006), Chico da Silva by Babá. Acrylic on canvas, 74 x 109 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Fish Birds and Snake

![A large red-spotted serpent winding across the composition among smaller fish on a yellow ground. Fish Birds and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-061/chico-da-silva-by-baba-fish-birds-and-snake-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-74x109cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-061-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting dominated by a large serpent whose thick body, banded in red with rows of white-centered round spots, winds in broad S-curves across the full width. The serpent's patterned head with an open mouth appears at the upper left, and its coils loop down through the center and toward the right. Several smaller fish in red, teal and purple swim in the surrounding spaces, two at the lower left, one at the upper right and others along the edges. Thin green sprigs of foliage appear at the right. The background is a luminous field of yellow and pale green with combed radiating strokes. A small signature sits at the lower center.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Babá](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2006
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 74 x 109 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Fish](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/fish/)[Snakes](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/snakes/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower center
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-061](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-061)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-061-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, at the center of the lower edge.*

## 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 Birds and Snake” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-061

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-061/manifest.json)