1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin blue and white ceramics I just really liked the

I just really liked the look of this bear

somewhat awkward but also graceful tree that  I--perhaps it is because I am nearing fifty

and became head of its theatre school

and the sprawling vines growing out from the heart with cross above

and if this compass doesn't sell quickly

1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin blue and white ceramics I just really liked theThis 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