Untitled

UntitledChico da Silva · 1972 · Acrylic on canvas
A long-beaked bird facing a fish, with dense patterned bodies on a yellow ground. Untitled, Chico da Silva, 1972, acrylic on canvas.
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A horizontal naïve painting on a warm yellow ground framed by rippling pastel lines. At the left a large long-beaked bird with a rounded body shows scalloped green and dark-red crests and soft blue and pink feathers with sprays of orange and yellow tips. At the lower right a fish with a bright red-orange mouth and a patterned body faces it. Fine combed and dotted linework covers both forms, outlined in black.

Artist
Chico da Silva
Year
1972
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
60 x 72 cm
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
FDZILVA, lower right (reversed S)
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-033
Article
The Painting Factory

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.

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

Chico da Silva, “Untitled” (1972). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-033

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