1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin farm tool the shorter 4 1/16"

the shorter 4 1/16"

I purchase this box from an estate sale in Newton

what immediately came to mind was a rule in home staging about the importance and optimal frequency of “pops of color” to draw your eye around a room

of which there are quite a wide (and sometimes wonderfully weird) variety

Some stains and a few bumps and dings around the edges

1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin farm tool the shorter 4 1/16"This is one of two marvelously naive mid 20th century ex voto retablos I purchased from a seller in California, quite similar in manner such that I might guess done by the same person, but with clearly different styles of writing at the bottoms so perhaps not, or perhaps the paintings were made for the subjects, who then painted the texts. Whatever the case, wonderful I think, with this super folky Virgin, feeling to me as holy as it gets, receiving