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title: "Roosters (1974) · JCC-018, Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Roosters (1974) · JCC-018, Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Roosters

![Two fighting roosters with striped plumage and red wattles facing each other on a black ground. Roosters, Chico da Silva, 1974, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-018/chico-da-silva-roosters-1974-acrylic-on-canvas-50x70cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-018-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-018/chico-da-silva-roosters-1974-acrylic-on-canvas-50x70cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-018-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

Two roosters confront each other at center against a black background, bodies tilted forward with raised crests and open beaks. Their feathers are drawn as fine parallel stripes and scalloped rows in orange, blue, purple, red and white, with peacock-like eye spots on the left bird's wing. Spiky green palm-like fronds spread out behind them and a small branching sprig rises in the middle. The naive style fills the surface with tight linear detail; a white stylized signature 'F.D.SILVA' and a date appear at the lower center.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1974
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 50 x 70 cm
- **Motif:** [Roosters](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/roosters/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FDZILVA, lower center (reversed S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-018](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-018)
- **Article:** [Ivan de Assis, the Cinema in the Bestiary](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/ivan-de-assis-the-cinema-in-the-bestiary/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1974-jcc-018-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.*

![Detail of the painter's thumbprint](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-fingerprint-1974-jcc-018-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*Detail of 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, “Roosters” (1974). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-018

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-018/manifest.json)