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title: "Untitled (c. 1966), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Untitled (c. 1966), Chico da Silva. Gouache on paper, 64 x 90 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Untitled

![A colorful patterned dragon-like creature flanked by two birds on a warm peach ground. Untitled, Chico da Silva, c. 1966, gouache on paper.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-029/chico-da-silva-untitled-undated-gouache-on-paper-64x90cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-029-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-029/chico-da-silva-untitled-undated-gouache-on-paper-64x90cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-029-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A large fantastic dragon-like creature fills the center against a warm peach-to-ochre background. It has an open jaw lined with teeth and red branching tendrils, a single big outlined eye, sturdy clawed feet, and a long S-curving tail. Its body is densely patterned with multicolored scales, heart shapes and leaf forms in blue, green, red and purple, all outlined in fine white hatching. Two smaller birds with outstretched patterned wings hover beside it, while delicate green sprigs and a bluish grassy strip mark the ground in the naïve folk style.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** c. 1966
- **Technique:** Gouache on paper
- **Support:** Paper
- **Dimensions:** 64 x 90 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FOZILVA, lower right (reversed D and S)
- **Photo:** João Cunha
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-029](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-029)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-undated-jcc-029-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FOZILVA”, in the lower right corner. The D and the S are reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”.*

## How to credit

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

Chico da Silva, “Untitled” (c. 1966). Photo: João Cunha, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-029

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-029/manifest.json)