Very Naive Old Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo Painting with Wonderful Figures and Geometries carved rosebud forever a core part of

forever a core part of one's identity

All Seeing Eye at top

Watercolor and ink

It makes sense that such fine work would be done by a Belgian

) Of course what really won me are the three pages of carefully mounted and labeled feathers

Very Naive Old Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo Painting with Wonderful Figures and Geometries carved rosebud forever a core part ofTotal love for this one a super naive antique Mexican folk art ex voto retablo on tin, c. early 20th century, with no text ever added to the white painted strip along the bottom, such that St. Anthony, shown here holding an infant Jesus, was never given his full thanks! What a wonderfully soulful face on him, and a mini adult one on the baby too, and then this fabulous rose cheeked kneeling woman in black with white polka dots, holding up what looks