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title: "Rooster and Butterfly (1973), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Rooster and Butterfly (1973), Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 25 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Rooster and Butterfly

![A pink S-shaped bird marked with red hearts facing a butterfly on a black ground. Rooster and Butterfly, Chico da Silva, 1973, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-003/chico-da-silva-rooster-and-butterfly-1973-acrylic-on-canvas-36x25cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-003-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A fantastic pink bird curves in an S-shape against a black background, its crested head turned toward a small red-and-white butterfly. The striped body carries two prominent red hearts and green-and-yellow wing feathers, with thin legs below. Slender green plants and grass tufts grow around the figure in the naïve folk manner. A white signature and date appear at the lower right.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1973
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 36 x 25 cm
- **Motif:** [Roosters](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/roosters/)[Insects](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/insects/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FDZILVA, lower right (reversed S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-003](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-003)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1973-jcc-003-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”. 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, “Rooster and Butterfly” (1973). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-003

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-003/manifest.json)