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title: "Untitled (1972) · JCC-032, Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Untitled (1972) · JCC-032, Chico da Silva. Acrylic on canvas, 77 x 89 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Untitled

![A long-necked blue-headed bird bending over a small bird, on a bright yellow ground. Untitled, Chico da Silva, 1972, acrylic on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-032/chico-da-silva-untitled-1972-acrylic-on-canvas-77x89cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-032-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-032/chico-da-silva-untitled-1972-acrylic-on-canvas-77x89cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-032-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal naïve painting on a bright yellow ground encircled by concentric rippling pastel lines. A large bird with a long curving blue neck and red beak bends down toward a small red-and-green bird lying at the lower right. The big bird's rounded body has an upper band patterned with rows of orange fish-like shapes over swirls, and a lower band of streaked green and teal plumage, ending in a dark fringed tail at the left. Reds, blues, greens and yellow dominate. A signature and date appear at the lower center.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1972
- **Technique:** Acrylic on canvas
- **Support:** Canvas
- **Dimensions:** 77 x 89 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FOZILVA, lower left (reversed D and S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-032](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-032)
- **Article:** [The Painting Factory](https://chicodasilva.org/en/articles/painting-factory/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1972-jcc-032-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” (1972). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-032

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## Also on Wikimedia

-   [Wikidata item](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140868720)
-   [File on Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chico_da_Silva_-_1972_-_Untitled_(birds)_-_Acrylic_on_canvas_-_77x89_cm_-_Jo%C3%A3o_Cunha_Collection.jpg)

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-032/manifest.json)