Amazing Claudio Jimenez Peruvian Mixed Media Retablo Signed shaker style mirror 1 7/8” l x 1”

1 7/8” l x 1” w x 2 1/4” t

Los Angeles or Rynne China Co

Oil on canvas nailed to a thick wooden stretcher

this one has a wonderfully warm patina

to the cobalt blue sea animated with white gulls and what look like lily pads everywhere

Amazing Claudio Jimenez Peruvian Mixed Media Retablo Signed shaker style mirror 1 7/8” l x 1”What a thing! The level of detail in this vintage Peruvian retablo just blows me away with layers upon layers of simultaneous drama painstakingly packed into an 8" x 10" inch space. (Detail photos tell the story best.) It thus comes as no great surprise that it is signed on the back Claudio Jimenez, I believe attributing it to internationally renowned maker of retablos Claudio Jimenez Quispe, from a famous family of retablo makers in Ayacucho, Peru,