Cockfight

CockfightChico da Silva · 1983 · Acrylic on canvas
Two roosters facing each other, with spiky crests and sweeping feathers on a black ground. Cockfight, Chico da Silva, 1983, acrylic on canvas.
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Two large stylised roosters face each other against a deep black background, divided by a thin green stalk rising between them. Each has a tall spiky crest in orange and blue, a big round outlined eye, and a body filled with dense fine hatched lines in purple, red, brown, teal and white. Broad leaf- and feather-shaped forms fan out from their sides in red, orange and green, with curling plumes sweeping along the lower edge. The dense linework and flat black field are typical of the naïve folk style, with a painted signature at the lower center.

Artist
Chico da Silva
Year
1983
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
50 x 70 cm
Motif
Roosters
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
FOZILVA, lower center (reversed D and S)
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-030
Article
The Final Years

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «FOZILVA»
The canvas is signed “FOZILVA”, at the center of the lower edge. The D and the S are reversed, so it reads as the artist's usual signature, “F. D. Silva”.

Provenance

  1. The artist, Fortaleza, 1983
  2. Private collection
  3. João Cunha Collection

How to credit

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

Chico da Silva, “Cockfight” (1983). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-030

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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