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title: "Untitled (1965), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Untitled (1965), Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas mounted on hardboard, 69 x 99 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Untitled

![Two roosters in a cockfight with sweeping multicoloured plumage on a black ground. Untitled, Chico da Silva, 1965, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-024/chico-da-silva-untitled-1965-acrylic-on-canvas-hardboard-69x99cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-024-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

On a black background, two roosters face one another in a cockfight, their forms nearly mirrored. Each has a small crested head with a single bold eye and a curved beak, and spreads sweeping fan-like tails and wings in vivid orange, red, yellow, blue and purple feathered strokes. Thin green palm-like fronds rise vertically between and beside the birds. The naïve, highly decorative style fills the panel densely, with a year and signature near the lower centre.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1965
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas mounted on hardboard
- **Support:** Canvas mounted on hardboard
- **Dimensions:** 69 x 99 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FOZILVA, lower center (reversed D and S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-024](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-024)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1965-jcc-024-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FOZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. The D and the S are reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”. Beside it sits 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, “Untitled” (1965). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-024

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-024/manifest.json)