{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":54695,"auction_id":106,"set_id":140,"lot_number":"130","artist":"Claudio Bravo (1936 - 2011)","title":"Portrait of a Man (front and back)","starting_price":100000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1976 (lower right)","medium":"edition print 32/75","size":"28 1/2” x 21” (72 cm x 53 cm) each","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"When Bravo was nine years old, he went with his mother and sisters to an old colonial mansion in Vina del Mar. Turned into a museum, the house displays work of contemporary local painters as well as few plaster casts of antique sculptures. This venture served as Bravo’s introduction to the art world.
Born from a family of landowners on the Chilean countryside, Claudio was the eldest son was destined to follow the path of his family’s fortune, caring for the land and the cattle raised on it. As a teenager his father obliged him to work on the ranches and at cattle fairs to gain proper experience. Completely disinterested in his family’s fortune and horrified by their numerous cows, he grew a distaste for the animal and decided to never paint it.
Despite his father’s hostility to the idea of his son’s career in art---in one instance his father burned his art materials---he gained the support of Father Dusuel, the prefect of his elementary school. To hone his artistic talent, Dusuel took Bravo to the studio of Miguel Venegas, the conservative romantic master who also taught Sebastian Matta and other Santiago painters. Influenced by the technique of his teacher, Bravo resorted to creating perfect copies of old master paintings. This training with Venegas served as his sole formal training as he remained largely self-taught throughout his career.
Highly influenced by the European masters, Bravo\nclaims to receive little or no inspiration from\nLatin American painters of either his or previous\ngenerations. Unlike current Hispanic artists, there are\nno hints in Bravo’s color or his subject matter of a\nLatin American identity.
At the young age of 17, he had his first exhibition\nat the prestigious Salón 13 in Valparaíso. He also\ndanced with the Compañía de Ballet de Chile and\nacted at the Teatro Ensayo at the Catholic University\nof Chile, but after moving to Concepción he became\na sought-after portrait painter.
In 1961 he moved to Spain and continued to paint\nsocially prominent subjects, including the daughter of\nGen. Francisco Franco. In 1968 he was invited to the\nPhilippines to paint Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and\nother members of that country’s elite.
Though Bravo originally won acclaim as a portrait\npainter, he became particularly known for his still\nlifes featuring crumpled paper, animal skulls, and\nexotically dressed figures. These, Bravo said, were\nheavily influenced by Spanish old masters like\nFrancisco de Zurbarán, Juan Sanchez Cotán, and\nDiego Velázquez.\n","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":160000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":160000,"userBid":5949,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":186880,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":56298,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/106/140/lot/130.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":129,"next":131,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}