Roberto de la Selva; Mahogany Bas-Relief, Mexico 1930's, Coconut Palms

A quite wonderful Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos festival held throughout Mexico) La Catrina symbolic skeleton figure. La Catrina is the festival’s most recognizable image/figure. She is the model of a high-society woman who has met Death, her maker. She represents something between the fear induced by her skeletal form and the revelry exhibited by the comical way she is typically portrayed, making her a perfect symbol of the Mexican holiday. She often appears in paintings, window displays, and costumes all around Mexico during the Day of the Dead festivities. La Catrina was originally conceived in the early 1900s by newspaper illustrator and printmaker José Guadalupe Posada...

Set of three vintage folk art style carved wooden relief wall hangings, showing a fisher man with a large fish, a sailboat or raft, and a farmer with basket...

A Fine and Large Egyptian Limestone Relief Carved in Shallow Relief Traces of original polychrome Old Kingdom / 5th Dynasty / 2454 - 2311 B.C Size: 32cm high, 70cm wide, 5cm deep - 12½ ins high, 27½ ins wide, 2 ins deep Provenance: Ex Private Swiss collection, acquired mid 1960s and thence by descent Ex Rupert Wace Limited London Ex Private London collection cf A...

An extraordinary work of art by Romanelli sculptors, this low relief is inspired by the celebrated Medusa Rondanini, a Hellenistic marble copy of the ...

Early 19th Century Unusual Painted Folk Art Coconut A piece of 19th Century curiosity with a very quirky charm. In the form of a hand painted coconut shell. We guess someone got bo...

This round low relief is a singular artwork crafted by sculptor Raffaello Romanelli in 1896 and exhibited in the monument for Donatello in the Saint Lawrenc...