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title: "Untitled, Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Untitled, Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 48 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Untitled

![An ornate fantastical bird with swirling layered plumage on a black ground. Untitled, Chico da Silva, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-036/chico-da-silva-untitled-undated-acrylic-on-canvas-68x48cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-036-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A single ornate fantastical bird stands against a deep black background. It has a long curved open beak, a round green eye, and a head decorated with rows of concentric circular eye-spot patterns in blue, red and orange. The body unfurls in richly layered scalloped feathers of orange, red, yellow, green and blue, with a tall curving plume above and long curling tail and toe feathers ending in spirals at the bottom. Fine hatched lines radiate across the black field, and red and green flame-shaped leaves rise along the sides in the dense, decorative naïve folk style.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 68 x 48 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-036](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-036)
- **Article:** [The Pirambu School](https://chicodasilva.org/en/pirambu-school/)

## How to credit

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

Chico da Silva, “Untitled”. Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-036

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-036/manifest.json)