SOLD Vintage Mexican Folk Art Retablo, Miracle on Operating Table triple x bulb kit Holding the sticks together at

Holding the sticks together at the bottom is a green wire loop

75" diameter x 1/2" tall

with terrific old alligatored paint

this one with what I think is an especially good spareness about it

but didn’t have the patience to fully figure it out—so this is the right thing for someone handy with such things and a little time on their hands

SOLD Vintage Mexican Folk Art Retablo, Miracle on Operating Table triple x bulb kit Holding the sticks together atYou 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