SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 wall hanging shaving mirror embroidered and fringed

embroidered and fringed

where the crossing strips of wood were lost

here landing on the little hole carved out at the center of the base every time

housing scissors

which reads wide eyed-happy-attentive from one side

SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 wall hanging shaving mirror embroidered and fringedI splurged a bit (by my standards) on this one, but couldn't not do so truly among my very favorite ex voto retablos I've ever seen, and I think something of a folk art masterpiece! I find those two kneeling women with raised hands and very painterly polka dotted dresses at right as perfectly full of life as anything out there, and then this tiny woman in black and white kneeling by her tiny bed (and what a marvelously visceral spikiness to the that