Ultra Naive Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Bull Dragging Little Man antique wooden pull toy January-February 1819

January-February 1819

give it an added sense of weight

) with a very nice heft and an untouched patina

(They elicit the sort of rush in me that makes "dealer" feel illicit

which is obvious from the back but not much noticeable from the front unless one is looking for it

Ultra Naive Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Bull Dragging Little Man antique wooden pull toy January-February 1819An especially folky folk art retablo, with the text never painted, but the painting itself does a very good job of telling a tragic story! And of course it is the tiny man being dragged by the black bull that won me about as empathetic depiction as could be. Pretty excellent cowboy to the right in his white shirt and blue jeans too. With Our Lady to the left with lots of gold, and a scene setting cloud like blue mountain range populated with golden