Lot 380
Two 20th Century Santos including Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. A wonderful hand crafted Santo of recent vintage in honor of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, a Jesuit missionary, cartographer, explorer and astronomer who founded missions in the late 1600s in the Baja Peninsula eventually made his way through to California and chronicled his trips to Arizona, visiting the ruins of the ancient Pueblos and setting up the first Jesuit Mission in Southern Arizona. This Santo is a wonderfully blocky 16 x 5 x 5" somewhat later 20th Century carving of the celebrated missionary (appropriate as he was 5' 6" and a very solidly built man) carved and covered in gesso and polychrome browns and gilt painted accents with a belt and tassel made of twine. The other is a small, and most certainly older Santo of the Virgin Mary (Inmaculada Concepción) 11¾", hand carved with polychrome and gesso in browns, gold, and pink sitting atop a blue and green painted base. The Santo of Kino is in excellent hand crafted condition, the Virgin Mary with wear, two fingers missing, and chippining common for pieces of an age. Estimated Value $400 - 600
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