Chico da Silva

Roosters

RoostersChico da Silva · 1974 · Acrylic on canvas
Two fighting roosters with striped plumage and red wattles facing each other on a black ground. Roosters, Chico da Silva, 1974, acrylic on canvas.
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Two roosters confront each other at center against a black background, bodies tilted forward with raised crests and open beaks. Their feathers are drawn as fine parallel stripes and scalloped rows in orange, blue, purple, red and white, with peacock-like eye spots on the left bird's wing. Spiky green palm-like fronds spread out behind them and a small branching sprig rises in the middle. The naive style fills the surface with tight linear detail; a white stylized signature 'F.D.SILVA' and a date appear at the lower center.

Artist
Chico da Silva
Year
1974
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
50 x 70 cm
Motif
Roosters
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
FDZILVA, lower center (reversed S)
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-018
Article
Ivan de Assis, the Cinema in the Bestiary

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»
The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. 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
Detail of the painter's thumbprint

How to credit

Photographs free to reuse, with credit (CC BY 4.0)

Chico da Silva, “Roosters” (1974). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-018

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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