MARCIAL CAMILO AYALA

Pair of Paintings on Amate

Marcial Camilo Ayala (Mexican 1951- )

Pair of Paintings on Amate

2 paintings on Amate (tree bark paper). Acrylic with pen and ink.

We acquired these approximately 20 years ago and they were sold and bought together. One painting is signed by Ayala and the other is attributed to, and speculated to be by him.

#1. Measures approximately 253/4 x 18 inches (Ayala signed)

#2. Measures approximately 251/4 x 171/2  inches

The Mexican folk artist Marcial Camilo Ayala was a Nahau from the village of San Agustin Oapan in the Rio Balsas valley located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. He began as a street artist painting amates (an indigenous Nahau tradition of painting on bark of the Jonote tree). Then in 1972, American art collector Edmund Rabkin discovered him in Taxco, and encouraged Marcial to paint more. The idea spread to his two brothers, Juan and Felix, and they became well-known artists by the late 1970s (floridamemory.com).

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