Hand painted, ornately decorated, hinged doors, divided interior, signed.

19 x 13 x 3.5 in.

The Estate Collection of Mr. Clifford Poole, Chapel Hill, NC CEO of Chapel Hill's internationally acclaimed publishing house Hinshaw Music, Inc.

Born in a peasant community in the high Peruvian Andes, Nicario Jimenez
studied sculpture at the Centro de Capacitacion Artesanal de Huamanga and
attended the Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de Huamanga in
Ayacucho, Peru. His one person exhibitions include the San Francisco Craft
and Folk Art Museum, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Museum of Man
in San Diego, California, the North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Rhode
Island School of Design.

His work was selected by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. for its
"Seeds of Change" Exhibit and was subsequently purchased by the Smithsonian
for its permanent collection.

Loose and broken figures; smoke odor present.