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click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge	TITLE: Vaquero Painting on Tin (non religious) MATERIAL: oil on tin APPROXIMATE SIZE: 13 3/4 X 20 1/4 inches and framed: 16 1/2 X 23 inches ESTIMATED AGE: dated 1935 CONDITION: very good -- I had some missing paint professionally restored in an area about the size of a silver dollar if you would place that silver dollar right above the left top of the vaquero's lasso and in a few other locations mostly in the corners. I stabilized the rust on back with Ospho. PRE-AUCTION PRICE: $2,500 dollars SHIPPING: $ 60 dollars ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: This large beautiful painting on a thick piece of tin was signed by E. Rodriguez. It was purchased in Santa Fe but I assume that it was originally from Mexico. It is difficut to find old, non religious paintings in Mexico. Since first posting this listing, I had a nice simple frame made for the picture. The frame goes well with the painting -- and it is not bowed as the image makes it appear.


click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge click picture to enlarge	TITLE: Ernesto Icaza Painting MATERIAL: oil on linen APPROXIMATE SIZE: 13 3/4 X 23 1/2 inches (without frame) ESTIMATED AGE: 100 years old -- painting is signed but not dated CONDITION: very good -- I had professional conservation work performed on the painting. This involved slight cleaning. An approximate two-inch circular tear was repaired and retouched That tear was located on the near-horse including a small portion of the end part of the tail, then circling above to affect three of the steers above the tail. Compare this before picture to the after picture that is the 7th image on the left: The patches seen on the back of the painting were already there when I purchased the painting. The larger patch corresponds to the aforementioned circular tear, but it had not been retouched. There was slight tearing and weakening of the linen across the bottom edge of the painting. That portion was reinforced and slightly retouched. The work was performed by Maria de los Angeles Almanza, a gifted and highly competent restorer of Mexican art. Her family has a long tradition of Mexican art dating back to her grandfather, father, uncles, and siblings. She also completed studies in art restoration at the university in Querétaro. I have never been disappointed in her work. Click the thumbnail to see the pictures that she took before the intervention: The stretcher had been practically eaten away by critters and was replaced by a new one. The colors of the painting are more beautiful than represented in the pictures. The first image shows how the painting looks in a simple cedar picture frame that I had made for some protection to the painting. PRE-AUCTION PRICE: $ 33,000 dollars (10% discount if purchaser picks up painting here in San Miguel) SHIPPING: $ 200 dollars ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: It is difficult to find really old Mexican paintings that are not religious oriented. Ernesto Icaza is the best known of Mexican artists that best captured scenes of action in the countryside about 100 years ago. Observe all of the movement in this painting. You sense the ease in which the riders stay in their saddles as if they were true extensions of the running horse. In this painting one can see the unsurpassed representation in great detail of all the riding attire of the vaquero or charro. He himself was both a charro and a painter. He was an acute observer of all that surrounded him in his countryside environment. Icaza was said to have been a genial man born to a distinguished Mexico City family in the year 1866. I have seen the time of his death in Mexico City as 1926 and also 1935. The story goes that he was known to have given away many of his paintings or sold them for only enough to buy the drinks. He also painted murals. No one knows all of the paintings that he signed nor has anyone seen all. When I first saw pictures of some of his works, I knew that I needed to keep my eyes open in the event that fate might present one to me – and fate had it that I found this one that went beyond my expectations of the quality of work that I might find. Icaza's paintings have achieved the status of investment quality. I have studied the results of around 50 auctions of the works of this artist. I feel that the quality of this painting is better than most and in relation to quality this painting is certainly more reasonably priced.

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