SOLD Vintage Mexican Folk Art Retablo, Miracle on Operating Table distressed metal sign modernist and folky at the

modernist and folky at the same time

with perfectly aged paint

as I've really fallen in love with the genre

with some aging to the paper

The bottom half of the starfish is darker than the rest

SOLD Vintage Mexican Folk Art Retablo, Miracle on Operating Table distressed metal sign modernist and folky at theYou know I'm always on the hunt for Mexican folk art retablos, the more unusual the better, so of course jumped on this operating table scene, thanking Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos, floating over the scene at right, for having saved our subject while she was in the hands of the doctor. The manner of the painting reminds me of WW2 era medical instruction manuals (i. e. our subject looks a bit as if she might be a CPR demonstration dummy, and the