Bird and Insects

Bird and InsectsChico da Silva by Babá · 2006 · Acrylic on canvas
A crested long-beaked bird with a striped shell-like body beside a leafy tree and a round green canopy. Bird and Insects, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.
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A horizontal painting on a pale blue and green ground showing a large crested bird at center-right with a long red-and-yellow beak and a rounded body banded in concentric stripes of green, gray and yellow, resembling a shell or armadillo. Behind and above it rises a round tree with a dense yellow-green canopy on a thin trunk. At the left a tall triangular pine-like tree grows upward, hung with small insects, a yellow winged figure and red beetles among its branches. Small bees and winged insects scatter across the upper area, and a turquoise circle and red curved line rest on the grassy lower ground. The foreground is filled with short green grass strokes, and the lower right is washed in yellow.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2006
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
75 x 100 cm
Motif
BirdsInsects
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower left
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-052
Article
The Instituto Oboé and the Pirambu Revival

The signature

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

Provenance

  1. The artist, Fortaleza, 2006
  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, “Bird and Insects” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-052

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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