Mexican Modernist Door Panel Gold Leaf Decoration

Double Sided Wood Door Panel in Gold Leaf Mexico 1960s Unmarked after Arturo Pani. Flower decoration on both sides. 70.5 h x 25.75 w x .25 thick Original unrestored vintage conditi...

1970s Mexican Modernism oil on canvas painting Mexico signed Gustavo Martinez. Fancy flamboyant rooster is the subject. 24 H x 18 W x 1 D inches Original unrestored vintage conditi...

Arturo Pani Gold Leaf Coffee Table Base Sculptural Base No tabletop glass is included. Unmarked Measures: 15 tall x 14.25 D x 29 W. Preowned original vi...

1960s Arturo pani stellar glass gold leaf side tables Mexico City. Sculptural Base Unmarked Matching coffee table is listed. Base 20 x 20 Glass 3/8 inch thick Preowned original ...

Mexican Modernism Fabulous Sculptural Table Lamp. Aluminum painted black. Fittings and hardware in patinated bronze. Lamp features colorful enamel disc plates. Lamp is mounted on elevated walnut rosewood base. No information on maker. Similar to designs of Arturo Pani with glazed enamel artistry after Maggie Howe...

1950s Arturo Pani Mexican Modernism Exquisite set of six gold leaf dining chairs in rich gray, Mexico City Unmarked. Measures: 36 tall x 22.75 depth x 17.5 width Seat 18.5 height...

18th century French pair of oils on gold leaf panels. One is depicting an angel playing the violin, and the other one is holding the music book.

Antique Mexican retablo made in 1890 which includes a woman praying to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Framed in wooden frame ornately carve...

Landscape painting with gold leaf frame painted by the artist Ole Ring (b.1902-d.1972), who lived in the Roskilde, Denmark area. The picture presumably illustrates the landscape arou...

We offer this rare and original handmade painted in oil on canvas by Mexican painter Ismael Rivera, includes signature, circa 1950.

Gold man by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso original watercolor/gouache painting on paper overall size: 111.75 x 8.5 inches condition: very good and ready...

ABOUT An original 19th century Mexican folk retablo. Oil paint on tin. Subject unknown. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1880. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Oil Paint on Tin. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS H 14 in. W 10 in. HISTORY Retablos, better known as 'laminas' in Mexico, are small oil paintings on tin, wood and sometimes copper which were used in home altars to venerate the almost infinite number of Catholic saints. The literal translation for 'retablo' is 'behind the altar.' This unique genre of art, deeply rooted in European history, was brought to Mexico with the arrival of the Spanish and then ultimately adopted by New World mestizo natives to become what is known today as the Mexican folk retablo. The retablo was an art form that flourished in post conquest Mexico and then ultimately, with the introduction of inexpensive mediums such as tin, reached its pinnacle of popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century. With some exceptions, mostly untrained artists from the provinces worked to produce and reproduce these sacred images; some subjects painted more prolifically than others. A typical "retablero" may have reproduced the same image hundreds, if not thousands of times in his or her career. These oil paintings were sold to devout believers who displayed them in home altars to honor their patron saints. There are virtually hundreds of saints, each invoked to remedy a different situation. "San Ysidro Labrador," the patron saint of farmers, is venerated for good weather...