SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 rare game which warmly enhance it

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nicely framed with a window to a third on the reverse side--I just think they're terrific sketches

but looks great and ready to fill

and what struck me was how those metal plates to either side of this woman's forehead looked like devices with some sort of scientific purpose--as if to harness energy

and African tribal carvings of twin and coupled figures--a couple of examples included at end in photos

SOLD Kneeling Women in Polka Dots, Very Folky Masterpiece of an Ex Voto Retablo on Heavy Tin, 1944 rare game which warmly enhance itI 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