{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":121,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"85","artist":"Fernando Zóbel (1924 - 1984)","title":"Estudio VI","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1966 (lower left and right)","medium":"ink on paper","size":"9 1/2” x 14 3/4” (24 cm x 37 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE DON J. ANTONIO ARANETA COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This particular sketch is a rare, interesting insight into the beginnings of Fernando Zobel's Dialogos series, which he described in a 1978 interview for El Imparcial (Madrid) as \"to speak of art with art. When \"I speak\" in these dialogues, I concentrate on one facet, and the result is not an imitation but a comment.\"<br /><br />In the Dialogos, Zobel converses with the old masters and their masterpieces he saw at the numerous museums he visited. By “conversing with the old masters,” it meant Zobel studying their creative process and the various elements integral to their praxis, and “analyses, interprets, disarranges and rearranges so as to build in his own way (light, movement, color, gesture, intention),” as his biographer Angeles Villalba Salvador puts it.<br /><br />In the work at hand, Zobel engages in a sublime dialogue with the 16th-century Venetian painter Tintoretto through the latter's masterpiece The Washing of the Feet (1548-49), based on the scene right after the Last Supper in which Jesus washes his disciples’ feet. It has been on display at Madrid's Museo del Prado since 1936. As seen in this sketch, Zobel studies the visual concept of perspective, a technique Tintoretto fiddled with in his painting. (Tintoretto intended The Washing of the Feet to be viewed at its right side, as it was originally hung on the right wall of the presbytery of the San Marcuola Church in Venice.)<br /><br />Zobel visited the Prado Museum many times throughout 1962. Villalba Salvador writes: \"His visits to the Prado are constant…unfailingly carries his notebook with him so as to study and analyze the paintings of the past with his pen.\" Zobel himself had said in 1962: \"Drawing the pictures is a way of seeing them. It cleanses the soul and leaves the most unexpected things in the subconscious.\" From these Prado excursions and Zobel's interview, one could easily understand how Zobel had come across Tintoretto and eventually made him one of the central characters in his Dialogos.<br /><br />Zobel inscribed in his handwriting that he did this sketch on August 14, 1966. He would produce a finished oil on canvas painting on August 19, 1966: Dialogo IV con El Tintoretto. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":200000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":200000,"userBid":12204,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":240320,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":87,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/85.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":84,"next":86,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}