Mexican Prayer Painting

$750.00

A Mexican prayer painting, commissioned as supplication to the Saints, seeking Divine Intervention for a patient in a hospital. Painted on scrap metal, this would have been an important altar piece in a humble Mexican home.

While primitive in execution, there is a compositional order and directness in this artwork giving it power and elevating it beyond categorization as a simple icon by an itinerant artist.

Length: 36 cm / 14 ¼ in
Height: 24.5 cm / 9 ½ in

$750

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A Mexican prayer painting, commissioned as supplication to the Saints, seeking Divine Intervention for a patient in a hospital. Painted on scrap metal, this would have been an important altar piece in a humble Mexican home.

While primitive in execution, there is a compositional order and directness in this artwork giving it power and elevating it beyond categorization as a simple icon by an itinerant artist.

Length: 36 cm / 14 ¼ in
Height: 24.5 cm / 9 ½ in

$750

A Mexican prayer painting, commissioned as supplication to the Saints, seeking Divine Intervention for a patient in a hospital. Painted on scrap metal, this would have been an important altar piece in a humble Mexican home.

While primitive in execution, there is a compositional order and directness in this artwork giving it power and elevating it beyond categorization as a simple icon by an itinerant artist.

Length: 36 cm / 14 ¼ in
Height: 24.5 cm / 9 ½ in

$750