Horse

HorseChico da Silva · 1975 · Acrylic on canvas
A rearing fantastic horse with a fanged head and patterned body on a black ground. Horse, Chico da Silva, 1975, acrylic on canvas.
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A vertical painting on a black background showing a fantastic horse rearing with its head thrown back, mouth open to bare sharp teeth, and a single staring eye. The body is assembled from overlapping patterned panels in orange, blue, purple and pink, with a radiating star-flower motif on the chest and a leg covered in concentric eye-spots. A streaming mane and tail of fine coloured lines flow around it, while spiky green palm-like fronds and small red buds fill the surrounding space. The white painted signature and date sit at the lower right in the naive style.

Artist
Chico da Silva
Year
1975
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
66 x 48 cm
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
FDZILVA, lower right (reversed S)
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-020
Article
The Pirambu School

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «FDZILVA»
The canvas is signed “FDZILVA”, in the lower right corner. The S is 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)

Chico da Silva, “Horse” (1975). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-020

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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