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title: "Snake and Bird (2007), Chico da Silva by Claudionor, painting"
description: "Snake and Bird (2007), Chico da Silva by Claudionor. Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Snake and Bird

![A large red serpent with open jaws confronting a crested armored bird perched on a forked branch. Snake and Bird, Chico da Silva by Claudionor, 2007, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-049/chico-da-silva-by-claudionor-snake-and-bird-2007-acrylic-on-canvas-70x100cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-049-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting on a glowing yellow-orange ground dominated by a large red serpent that arcs across the composition. The serpent's head, at the upper left, is open-mouthed with rows of white teeth and red dotted scales, its long body curving down and around to the right where it coils through the limbs of a dark forked branch. Facing the serpent at center is a crested bird with a blue head and a rounded, armadillo-like banded body striped in green, yellow, orange and gray, standing on the branch with clawed feet. A small green creature hangs below the bird's beak. The background radiates with fine concentric lines suggesting heat or light. The signature appears at lower center-right.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva by Claudionor](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 2007
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 70 x 100 cm
- **Motif:** [Birds](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/birds/)[Snakes](https://chicodasilva.org/en/motifs/snakes/)
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** CHICO DA ZILVA / P/ CLAUDIONOR, lower right
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-049](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-049)
- **Article:** [Claudionor, the Draughtsman](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/claudionor-the-draughtsman/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA ZILVA / P/ CLAUDIONOR»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/claudionor-signature-2007-jcc-049-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “CHICO DA ZILVA / P/ CLAUDIONOR”, in the lower right corner.*

## Provenance

1.  The artist, Fortaleza, 2007
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 Claudionor, “Snake and Bird” (2007). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-049

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-049/manifest.json)