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

![Two confronting roosters with fanned tails facing each other amid green palm fronds on a yellow ground. Roosters, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-060/chico-da-silva-by-baba-roosters-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-75x110cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-060-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-060/chico-da-silva-by-baba-roosters-2006-acrylic-on-canvas-75x110cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-060-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting of two large roosters facing each other at the center, their tail plumes fanning outward to the left and right edges. The left rooster has a deep red feathered breast and crest with a striped purple and red tail; the right rooster is orange with a body covered in blue eye-spots and swirls and a feathery upswept tail. Their legs meet in the lower center, talons nearly touching above a yellow ground. Tall green palm-like fronds rise vertically at the far left, far right and between the birds, with finer green grass strokes across the lower field. A tiny bird flies at the upper right against the pale cream background.

- **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:** [Roosters](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/roosters/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-060](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-060)
- **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 BABÁ»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/baba-signature-2006-jcc-060-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, 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, “Roosters” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-060

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-060/manifest.json)