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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 1667997, member: 1476&quot;]Um...&nbsp; Don&#039;t think so.&nbsp; There&#039;s nothing about the above that suggests they&#039;re the work of the Venezuelan artist Pepe López.&nbsp; He&#039;s a mature, accomplished artist.&nbsp; These appear to be the work of a student.&nbsp; (And the Puerto Rican flag hints that he might be American.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is a <i>retablo.&nbsp; </i>The quote is religious but I can&#039;t find a Biblical match.&nbsp; It translates roughly as &quot;The power that the strength of man achieves has been and will be by the work of God.&quot;</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retablo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retablo" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retablo</a></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>The second is labelled as a folding triptych but, if it opens as a book, it isn&#039;t really.&nbsp; It&#039;s entitled &quot;Stroke and Texture&quot; and that&#039;s stroke in the medical sense, not brush or other.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Both works are <i>juvenil</i>.&nbsp; Juvenille.&nbsp; From the plaque, the <i>retablo</i> appears to have been presented at or entered into something.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, their value is in the troll.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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