Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin mary davis Painting itself: 8 5/8" x

Painting itself: 8 5/8" x 6"

adding a little moodiness and strangeness

1" I believe consisted of six knitted balls in rainbow colors without strings and six with strings attached

with this watercolor of five eggs the anomaly among them

with an early incarnation of the lettering still visible under the current hand-painted version

Praying Couple and Santo Nino: Antique Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo on Tin mary davis Painting itself: 8 5/8" xIt's been a little while since I've had a ex voto retablo painting in the shop they seem to be getting evermore precious and hard to come by so I was especially glad to find this beauty in southern Maine this week. Perfectly succinct but full of feeling, with all focus on the thankful couple kneeling beside their simple bed, praying to the Santo Nio de Atocha (Christ child) who floats on a cloud at upper left. Wonderfully painted figures I especially