SOLD! for $938.00.
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Two (2) Mexican folk art retablo paintings. Both are painted on tin with shaped tin and painted glass frames. 1st item: A depiction of the "Lord of the Column," with the flagellated Christ in an interior setting wearing a white loincloth and kneeling beside a column on which rest several whips. Sight – 6.5" H x 9.5" W. Framed – 14.5" H x 15" W. 2nd item: a float-mounted, half-length depiction of a hooded St. Jerome contemplating a skull and holding a crucifix. Sight: 9 3/4" H x 6.5" W. Framed: 20.5" H x 14.5" W. Both late-19th or early-20th century.
PROVENANCE: The Estate of James Lewis, Carthage, Tennessee.
CONDITION: Overall good condition. 1st item's frame is detached on three sides. 2nd item has minor areas of loss to the paint including small scratches and a scrape over the skull's left eye socket, approximately 1/2 inch. Both frames show general wear including minor creasing of tin.
