{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":11,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"147","artist":"Mauro Malang Santos (1928 - 2017)","title":"Four Seasons (Quadriptych)","starting_price":2400000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1994 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"22” x 18” (56 cm x 46 cm) each\n44” x 36” (112 cm x 91 cm) overall","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by West Gallery\nconfirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"León Gallery, The Kingly Treasures Auction 2017,\nDecember 2, 2017, Lot 105","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Mauro Malang Santos is upfront with his limited formal education. Aside from the childhood drawing lessons he took from artist Teodora Buenaventura and a semester at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, the bulk of his “lessons” came from his career as a cartoonist at the Manila Chronicle, or what he calls his “Chronicle College.” Under cartoonist Liborio “Gat” Gatbonbon’s tutelage, Malang went on to create the first English comic stip in the Philippines entitled Kosme, the Retired Cop.<br /><br />Further into his career as a cartoonist, Malang started painting vignettes of Manila under the encouragement of then-editor and another “professor” of his at his Chronicle College H.R. Ocampo. Starting with colorful folk depictions, Malang’s later works eventually matured to a more abstract form with his attention focused on the lighter livelier aspects of Filipino life.<br /><br />Malang has a special affection for floral sceneries as shown in his works. In his abstractionist form, Malang transforms a simple still life into a joyous celebration of life as displayed with this lot in hand. As Leonidas V. Benesa stated in 1974, “[The flowers] occupy the foreground as the centers of interest, blooming right into one’s face and consciousness, like large Chagall bouquets. The paintwork is thick and dense, though also delicate, and all four panels of the quadriptych stroke the eye somewhat as the power and complexity of musical chords in music do to the ear.” Twenty years later, Benesa’s observation about Malang is still applicable as displayed with this colorful quadriptych from 1994 Untitled (The Jubilee Quadriptych. Untitled (The Jubilee Quadriptych) features four distinct paintings that create a coherent story when viewed together. All four paintings are a testament to Malang’s mastery in technique, color, and form<br /><br />A prolific and celebrated artist, Malang won awards in the annual art competitions of the Art Association of the Philippines, Society of Philippine Illustrators and Cartoonists, and the Art Directors Guild. He was among the Ten Outstanding Young Men awardees in 1963 , the Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining awardee in 1995, and an awardee of the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award from the City of Manila in 1981. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":161,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/147.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":146,"next":148,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}