"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a beautiful long and

and a beautiful long and lanky monkey he is

With nicely done ears and hand especially

Better than a YouTube video of cross-species animals friends I’d say

but I'm not  sure as there are really no punctures or losses along the top edges that I can discern

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a beautiful long andThis is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the