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title: "Untitled (1969), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Untitled (1969), Chico da Silva. Gouache on canvas, 35 x 24 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Untitled

![A tall long-necked spotted bird seizing a fish in its claws against a flecked yellow ground. Untitled, Chico da Silva, 1969, gouache on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-026/chico-da-silva-untitled-1969-gouache-on-canvas-35x24cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-026-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-026/chico-da-silva-untitled-1969-gouache-on-canvas-35x24cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-026-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

On a vivid yellow ground dotted with tiny dashes, a large fantastic bird rises with a long S-curved blue neck, a crested head and an open beak. Its plump body is covered in rows of stippling and big oval medallions in blue, turquoise, brown and orange, and it seizes a blue-and-red fish below with its clawed feet, as if hunting. Green and blue foliage sprigs and a small dark insect-like form decorate the background. The naïve style fills the surface with fine pattern; a signature and the year sit at lower left.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1969
- **Technique:** Gouache on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 35 x 24 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FOZILVA, lower left (reversed D and S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-026](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-026)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1969-jcc-026-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FOZILVA”, in the lower left corner. 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” (1969). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-026

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-026/manifest.json)