Fish and Bird

Fish and BirdChico da Silva by Babá · 2006 · Acrylic on canvas
Two intertwined long fish or sea serpents densely patterned in red and teal on a pale ground. Fish and Bird, Chico da Silva by Babá, 2006, acrylic on canvas.
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Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting of two large elongated fish-serpent creatures whose bodies coil and intertwine across the entire surface. The upper creature stretches from the left with a finely combed feathery tail and curves to a toothed open mouth at the upper right. The lower creature fills the center with a densely patterned body of teal, red and purple eye-spots and scale lines, its fanned fins flaring in red and orange. A small bird with a long beak hovers at the upper right facing the mouth, and a smaller striped fish appears at the lower left. The background is a soft wash of yellow and green with feathery green strokes along the lower edges. A small signature sits at the lower right.

Artist
Chico da Silva by Babá
Year
2006
Technique
Acrylic on canvas
Support
Canvas
Dimensions
75 x 110 cm
Motif
BirdsFish
Collection
João Cunha Collection
Signature
CHICO DA SILVA / POR, lower right
Photo
Eric Keki
Inventory no.
JCC-059
Article
Babá, the First Disciple

The signature

Detail of the painted signature: «CHICO DA SILVA / POR»
The canvas is signed “CHICO DA SILVA / POR”, in the lower right 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, “Fish and Bird” (2006). Photo: Eric Keki, João Cunha Collection, CC BY 4.0. https://chicodasilva.org/id/jcc-059

The license covers the photograph, not the painting.

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