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title: "Peacock (1970), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Peacock (1970), Chico da Silva. Gouache on canvas mounted on hardboard, 64 x 44 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Peacock

![A tall peacock with a fanned tail of colourful eye-spots on a black ground. Peacock, Chico da Silva, 1970, gouache on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-014/chico-da-silva-peacock-1970-gouache-on-canvas-hardboard-64x44cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-014-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-014/chico-da-silva-peacock-1970-gouache-on-canvas-hardboard-64x44cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-014-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A fantastic long-necked bird rises against a black background, beak open and eye marked with concentric stripes. Its sweeping tail of yellow plumes is dotted with rings of blue, red and white eye-spots fanning to the right. The neck and body show banded stripes of red, blue and white, and the bird's pale legs and feet are at lower left. Thin radiating coloured lines and slender green fronds fill the field in the naïve folk manner. A white date and signature sit at lower centre.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1970
- **Technique:** Gouache on canvas mounted on hardboard
- **Support:** Canvas mounted on hardboard
- **Dimensions:** 64 x 44 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FDZILVA, lower center (reversed S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-014](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-014)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1970-jcc-014-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. The S is reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”. Beside it sits the painter's thumbprint.*

## How to credit

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

Chico da Silva, “Peacock” (1970). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-014

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-014/manifest.json)