Bidspirit auction | A Pair of Framed Watercolors

A Pair of Framed Watercolors by Ruiz, Mexican Folk Art Village Scenes - A pair of framed watercolor and ink artworks by Ruiz, depicting Mexican folk art village scenes. Each piece features an architectural landscape in an illustrative, vibrant style. The first artwork portrays a narrow street leading to a domed church and bell tower amidst whitewashed buildings with colorful doors and tiled roofs. The second depicts a grand stone archway framing a similar village scene with a prominent church in the distance and a lone figure in red. Both compositions utilize fine ink outlines complemented by washes of bright watercolor, dominated by blues, yellows, oranges, and warm earth tones. The artwork on the left is signed 'Ruiz' in script in the lower right corner. Each painting is matted in a neutral tone and housed under glass within a dark wood-toned frame with a gold-colored inner edge.