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title: "Untitled (1975), Chico da Silva, painting"
description: "Untitled (1975), Chico da Silva. Gouache on canvas mounted on hardboard, 90 x 65 cm. Painting in the João Cunha Collection."
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# Untitled

![An ornate fantastic rooster with curving neck and sweeping multicolored plumage on black. Untitled, Chico da Silva, 1975, gouache on canvas.](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-027/chico-da-silva-untitled-1975-gouache-on-canvas-hardboard-90x65cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-027-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

[Download image](https://img.chicodasilva.org/jcc-027/chico-da-silva-untitled-1975-gouache-on-canvas-hardboard-90x65cm-joao-cunha-collection-jcc-027-chicodasilva.org-3200.jpg)

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A vertical composition on a near-black ground showing a single stylized fantastic rooster. Its long neck curves downward to a small head with a round eye and an open hooked beak in red and yellow. The body and tail erupt into elaborate plumage filled with teardrop forms, scales, dots and concentric circles in red, blue, green, yellow and orange. Thin radiating lines, curling yellow tendrils and feathery green fronds fan out across the dark background in the naive folk style. A date and the signature are inscribed at the lower left.

- **Artist:** [Chico da Silva](https://chicodasilva.org/en/biography/)
- **Year:** 1975
- **Technique:** Gouache on canvas mounted on hardboard
- **Support:** Canvas mounted on hardboard
- **Dimensions:** 90 x 65 cm
- **Collection:** [João Cunha Collection](https://chicodasilva.org/en/about/)
- **Signature:** FDZILVA, lower left (reversed S)
- **Photo:** Eric Keki
- **Inventory no.:** [JCC-027](https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-027)
- **Article:** [The Pirambu School](https://chicodasilva.org/en/pirambu-school/)

## The signature

![Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-signature-1975-jcc-027-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, in the lower left corner. The S is reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”. Beside it sits the painter's thumbprint.*

![Detail of the painter's thumbprint](https://img.chicodasilva.org/signatures/chico-da-silva-fingerprint-1975-jcc-027-chicodasilva.org-640.jpg)

*Detail of 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” (1975). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-027

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

## For IIIF viewers

-   [IIIF manifest](https://chicodasilva.org/iiif/jcc-027/manifest.json)