Folk Art Genre Painting — Pobres Pero Felices

Description

Naive-style acrylic on canvas painting titled “Pobres Pero Felices” (“Poor But Happy”), a lively genre scene of daily domestic life rendered in a folk-art idiom. The composition shows a woman tending a large pot over an open cooking fire, a boy standing nearby, a second woman reaching up to a wall-mounted dish rack, and two men seated at a cloth-covered table with a pitcher and cup, all set against a soft mint-green interior wall hung with baskets and a bucket. Signature/marking present as shown; attribution not verified. Inquire for details.

The artist has hand-inscribed the reverse of the stretched canvas with the title “Pobres Pero Felices,” the medium as acrylic on canvas, a stated size of 35 x 19, the date Monday, November 25, 2002, and the number 92, along with a green paint wash carried around the outer edge of the stretcher bars. The image continues onto the canvas’s side edge, where a small painted stool appears beside a cursive signature. The piece is unframed, presented as a gallery-wrapped stretched canvas.

The canvas presents in stable, clean condition overall, with the original stretcher bars intact and no tears, punctures, or paint losses noted. The white-painted edges of the stretcher show light scuffing and scattered handling marks consistent with age, and the exposed canvas tacking margins show minor toning.