Birds

BirdsChico da Silva by Babá · 2006 · Acrylic on canvas
Several long-legged birds and peacock-like creatures spread across a warm yellow and orange field with foliage. Birds, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting filled with several elongated bird figures over a warm yellow and orange ground. At the center stands a large bird with a rounded body marked by a row of orange crescent scales and a spotted teal border, balanced on thin legs. To its right a second bird with a patterned blue and purple body and a tall red crest faces right, with a small green sprig of foliage between them. At the upper left a peacock-like bird with a long combed tail flies downward, and a smaller red and teal bird with radiating tail feathers perches at the far left. A small crested bird appears at the upper right. The surrounding background is streaked with combed bands of pink, blue, orange and cream.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2006
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
74 x 110 cm
Motif
Birds
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ, lower center
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-057

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ»
The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR BABÁ”, at the center of the lower edge.

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, “Birds” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-057

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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