{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":173,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"137","artist":"Emmanuel Garibay (b. 1962)","title":"Pilipino","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2012 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"72” x 54” (183 cm x 137 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":"UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Walang Sinasanto: Emmanuel Garibay,\nQuezon City, February 13 - March 15, 2013","literature":"Flores, Patrick and Emmanuel Garibay. Walang Sinasanto: Emmanuel\nGaribay (Exhibition Catalog). Quezon City: UP Vargas Museum, 2013.\nPublished on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at\nthe UP Vargas Museum in 2013. Full-color illustration and painting\ndescription on page 17.","write_up":"months later, Spain would callously cede the Philippines and its former territories to the US for 20 million dollars.<br /><br />In the events leading to the mock battle, Aguinaldo remained complacent. The Americans—and the Spanish—were practically encircled by Filipino troops. Why did Aguinaldo hesitate to take over the Walled City? That crucial period before the arrival of American reinforcements could have spelled victory for the Filipinos. Unfortunately, Aguinaldo, placing too much faith and reliance on the Americans as their allies against the Spanish, succumbed to Dewey’s request to “not attack Manila until the arrival of the troops from California,” as Joaquin succinctly puts it.<br /><br />Nationalist historian Renato Constantino writes in The Philippines: A Past Revisited: “Then, too, the importance of the palabra de honor of Spanish feudal tradition cannot be discounted. When important personages like Dewey and American diplomatic officials gave Aguinaldo their verbal assurance [of not colonizing the Philippines and aiding in the defeat of the Spanish], he accepted these as the word of honor of officers and gentlemen and, therefore, in accordance with Spanish tradition, as sacred and binding as any writte n contract.”<br /><br />In John R.M Taylor’s The Philippine Insurrection Against the United States (1971), Aguinaldo himself said: “…for I still trusted in the justice and rectitude of the Congress of the United States, that it would not approve the tendencies of the imperialistic party, and that it would heed the voice of Admiral Dewey, who, as a high representative of America in our Islands, had concerted and covenanted with me and the Filipino people the recognition of our independence.”<br /><br />Aguinaldo immediately went from making history to being engulfed by an oppressive history that was the American victory. Thus, Emmanuel Garibay presents a crucial chapter in our tragic story as a nation. Donned in americana, Aguinaldo holds a dog (an allusion to being a lapdog) and a basketball, signifying the country’s continuing heritage of parasitic alliance with that selfserving American imperialism that continues to plague our fragile nation, resulting in our oppressive situation as a neocolonial state.<br /><br />Now that we're at the end of our celebrations for the 125th anniversary of our “independence,” it is timely to ask: Are we ready to collectively mobilize towards the pearly gates of the state palace, dismantle its oppressive walls, and continue the march for national democracy? (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1600000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1600000,"userBid":6140,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1922560,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":147,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/137.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":136,"next":138,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}