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Mexican Amate Folk Art

Fiesta en Xalitla / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Edalinda Perez Velazquez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 28" x 20" x 2" in or 72 x 51 x 4 cm - Color: Rainbow
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2010s Folk Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Watercolor

Festividades Virgen de Guadalupe / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Alejandro Diaz Nava
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 28" x 37" x 2" in or 72 x 93 x 4 cm - Weight: 16.5 lb or 7.5 kg
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Watercolor

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Antique Mexican Diablo Mask
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this rare and very antique Mexican Diablo mask in wood, circa 1940. Great patina.
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Vintage 1940s Mexican Folk Art Masks

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Wood

Antique Mexican Diablo Mask
Antique Mexican Diablo Mask
H 11.82 in W 13.78 in D 7.49 in
24'' Nativity Avion Wood carving Alebrije Sculpture Mexican Folk Art
By Agustin Cruz Tinoco
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Agustin Cruz Tinoco MASTERPIECE: Made with Copal wood, woodcarving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with acrylic paintings wi...
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2010s Folk Art Abstract Sculptures

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Wood, Acrylic

Huichol Niereka Art Textile
Located in New York, NY
Mexican Huichol Niereka art textile depicting two figures, one with deer antlers shooting a bow and arrow at an anthropomorphic zoomorphic figure, housed under glass in a silver-tone...
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Mid-20th Century Aesthetic Movement Decorative Art

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Textile

Huichol Niereka Art Textile
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Colonial Mexican Folk Art Ex-Voto Retablo Painting of Saint Rita De Cascia 1800s
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful 19th century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Saint Rita De Cascia. Santa Rita is almost always depicted as she is here, with a...
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Antique 19th Century Mexican Folk Art Paintings

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Metal, Tin

Vintage Mounted Mexican Otomi Embroidered Textile
Located in Chicago, IL
A playful and whimsical late 20th century Mexican Otomi textile with myriad gold embroidered animals and plants including rabbits, deer, horses, and peacocks, on a white cotton groun...
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Late 20th Century Mexican Tribal Tapestries

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Cotton

Teotihuacan Ceramic Head Fragment
Located in Chicago, IL
This intriguing head fragment was once attached to a bust or full effigy figurine crafted in 400 A.D. Mesoamerica. Earthenware figurines were made in great abundance throughout Teoti...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Pre-Columbian Ceramics

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Ceramic

Vintage South American Handwoven Textile Made into a Poncho in Ivory, Red, Blue
Located in Barrington, IL
Vintage South American handwoven textile made into a poncho from the mid 20th century.  The piece is put together by hand stitching three individually woven textile pieces and formed...
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Mid-20th Century Bolivian Quilts and Blankets

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Wool, Cotton

Monumental Mexican Carved Polychrome Mermaid Dance Mask, Folk Art Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent life-size Mexican folk art hand carved and painted wood body dance mask, in the form of a mermaid, dating to the early 20th century, most likely originating in Guerrero...
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Early 20th Century Mexican Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

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Wood, Gesso, Paint

1950s Catrin "Dandy" Mask, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Catrin (Dandy) mask Nahua people, Tlaxcala, Mexico Wood, gesso, paint 1950s-1960s Measures: 7? (17.8 cm) high, 6.5? (16.5 cm) wide, 5? (12.7 cm) deep This mask is called the C...
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Vintage 1950s Mexican Folk Art Masks

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Wood, Paint

Vintage Nahua Pottery Chililico Hidalgo Mexican Folk Art Animal Candleholders
Located in Forney, TX
A most charming pair of two rare and whimsical indigenous Nahua peoples pottery animal folk art candleholders. Handmade in the village of Chililico, Hidalgo, Central Mexico, primiti...
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Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

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Pottery

Leon - Lion - Hand Beaded - Mexican Huichol Art - Mexican Folk Art
By Sergio Bautista de la Cruz
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Huichol Indian - Hand beaded Sea Cow This beautiful Huichol Sculpture beaded has such beautiful bright colors. Hand beaded sculpture with attention to detail. At Cactus Fine Art, we...
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2010s Folk Art Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Pre Columbian Totonac stone bust Figure Veracruz Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Totonac stone bust Figure Veracruz Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D A Rare basalt bust of a Totonac deity with pouted lips and geometric headdress, caved in basalt with dar...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Antiquities

Materials

Stone

Pre Columbian Jalisco Figure West Mexico Circa B.C. 100-300 A.D
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Jalisco seated figure Jalisco West Mexico circa B.C. 100-300 A.D, A Male pottery figure with red slip with elongated head and linear delineated hair wearing ear an...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Antiquities

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Pottery

Large Vintage decorative Mexican terracotta bust Montezuma
Located in London, GB
Large Vintage decorative Mexican terracotta bust Montezuma A Vintage pottery bust of Montezuma with headdress and ear ornaments in red/brown terracotta with polychrome pigment dec...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Antiquities

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Pottery

"Saint Lucia" Early 19th Century Santos Figure Polychromed Mexico
Located in Wiscasset, ME
She is depicted holding a tray aloft with her eyes, which she gouged out in order to keep from being married off to a Pagan. Polychromed gesso with gilding. Some small bits of polyc...
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Antique 1830s Mexican Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

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Wood

Mexico, 9th-16th Century, Huastec Culture, Small Anthropomorphic Potion Vase
Located in VILLEFONTAINE, FR
Mexico Huastec Culture / 800 – 1500 AD Small anthropomorphic vase used by shamans for the preparation of potions. It represents a seated figure with a globular body with a small ch...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Native American Objects

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Terracotta

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Independencia de Mexico / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Edalinda Perez Velazquez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 29" x 21" x 2" in or 74 x 53 x 4 cm - Color
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2010s Folk Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paint, Paper

Mi Pueblo / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Edalinda Perez Velazquez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 28" x 20" x 2" in or 72 x 51 x 4 cm - Color: Rainbow
Category

2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Watercolor

Preparando festividades del nacimiento / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Nativity
By Santiago Alejandro Celis
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
" Picture painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 29" x 37" x 1" in  or 74 x
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint

Vista de Xalitla / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Alejandro Diaz Nava
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 36" x 28" x 2" in or 92 x 72 x 4 cm - Weight: 16.5 lb or 7.5 kg
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2010s Folk Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Paint

Nacimiento en Xalitla / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame Nativity
By Javier Martinez Pedro
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 26" x 18" x 2" in or 66 x 46 x 4 cm
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2010s Folk Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Ofrendas para mis muertos / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Alejandro Diaz Nava
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 35" x 27" x 2" in or 90 x 69 x 4 cm
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Watercolor

Plate 11: a Purépecha (or Tarascan) Woman from the State of Michoacán Silkscreen
By Carlos Mérida
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract figurative folk art print depicting a Tarascan woman from the State of Michoacán
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20th Century Folk Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Early 20th Century Guerrero Paint Clay Water Vessel
Located in Guadalajra, Jal
, Mexico. The pot is painted in the typical style now found on bark (amate) paintings all over Mexico. The
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Early 20th Century Mexican Folk Art Jars

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Clay

Colorful Green and Red Mexican Amate Folk Art Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Richly hued Mexican Amate (bark) folk art painting depicting a village with animated people, plants
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20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Mexican Amate Hand Painted Folk Art Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand painted bark framed in white lacquered wood and violet mat. Beautifully colored Mexican folk
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Paintings

Pair Colorful Amate Folk Art Paintings
Located in Chicago, IL
folk art paintings each depict a pair of colorful tropical birds in a tree, pursued in one by a horse
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Paintings

Vintage Mexican Amate Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
A nicely detailed mid 20th century Mexican amate painting -- a village scene with trees, animals
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Vintage 1940s Mexican Paintings

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Mexican Amate Folk Art For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate piece of mexican amate folk art for your needs in our varied inventory. Making the right choice when shopping for an item from our selection of mexican amate folk art may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right choice in our collection of mexican amate folk art is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes gray, beige and brown. Creating an object in our assortment of mexican amate folk art has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Alejandro Diaz Nava, Edalinda Perez Velazquez, Santiago Alejandro Celis and Javier Martinez Pedro are consistently popular. Artworks like these — often created in paint, watercolor and paper — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much is a Mexican Amate Folk Art?

The price for a piece of mexican amate folk art in our collection starts at $575 and tops out at $1,750 with the average selling for $1,250.
Questions About Mexican Amate Folk Art
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Mexican folk art can be characterized by vibrant colored paintings and jewelry designed with floral motifs. Lush forests and animals, especially birds, are featured in Mexican folk art, which is a blend of Indigenous and European methods and skills. You’ll find a variety of Mexican folk art from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.