Felipe Ujpan Mendoza -- "La Bendedora"

Oil painting on stretched canvas, framed, measuring 28 x 37 inches
Felipe Ujpan Mendoza lives in the Tzutujil Maya village of San Juan la Laguna on Lake Atitlan. He has exhibited widely in Guatemala, and is represented in the UNESCO book titled Arte Naif -- Guatemala, published in 1998. Two different paintings by Felipe Ujpan are pictured in that book.

Oil painting on canvas measuring 28 x 37 inches, stretched and framed in a simple black wood frame. Signed "Felipe Ujpan M." in the lower left corner, titled "La Bendedora" 04 (variant spelling of "vendedora", a female seller) in the lower left corner. The painting depicts a woman in traje of Chichicastenango selling fruits in a local market. It was painted in 2004. The images below are of the entire painting, followed by close-up photos of different parts. This is a large painting and will be fairly expensive to ship.  Some of this extra postage is included in the purchase price.