Birds Fish and Snake

Birds Fish and SnakeChico da Silva by Babá · 2005 · Acrylic on canvas
Two tall wading birds and a serpent flanking a central pool of swimming fish on a yellow ground. Birds Fish and Snake, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2005, acrylic on canvas.
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting with two large wading birds facing inward across a central pale-blue pool filled with swimming fish. The bird on the left has a patterned body of red dotted with circles and a blue-and-orange speckled wing, its long neck curving up to a small head at the top. The bird on the right is rounded with concentric pink and red banded markings, its neck rising to a crested head. A long orange and red serpent loops across the upper center between the two birds' heads, and another red-spotted serpent descends at the right edge. In the center a cluster of small orange and blue fish swim among reeds. Green feathery foliage rises along both lower corners, and the upper background is bright yellow shading to a paler pool below.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2005
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
75 x 100 cm
Motif
BirdsFishSnakes
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA, lower left
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-048

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA»
The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABA”, in the lower left corner.

Provenance

  1. The artist, Fortaleza, 2005
  2. Instituto Cultural Oboé, Fortaleza
  3. Leilão Montenegro, auction, 2025
  4. João Cunha Collection

How to credit

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

Chico da Silva by Babá, “Birds Fish and Snake” (2005). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-048

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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