{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":55588,"auction_id":107,"set_id":141,"lot_number":"76","artist":"Nena Saguil (1924 - 1994)","title":"Night II","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed, dated 1962 and inscribed \"Paris\" (lower right)","medium":"gouache and Chinese ink","size":"39 1/4\" x 27 3/4\" (100 cm x 70 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE AMBASSADOR ROSARIO MANALO COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":"PROVENANCE\nA gift from the artist to Amb. Rosario Manalo","exhibited":null,"literature":"LITERATURE\nTorres, Emmanuel. Nena Saguil - Landscapes and Inscapes:\nFrom the Material World to the Spiritual. Full-color illustration on page 89\nand painting description on page 88.","write_up":"<p>Writer and critic Emmanuel Torres in his book Nena Saguil: Landscapes and Inscapes from the Material World to the Spiritual categorized Saguil&rsquo;s art into five distinct periods. This work at hand, which was done in 1962 and created in Paris, belongs to her second-to-the-last period, the Lyrical Abstraction period which lasted from the 1960s to the early 1980s.</p>\n<p>The 1960s to the 1970s of her works are her blue and green periods, and though it was noticeably not present in this piece, the qualities that made her Lyrical Abstraction period stand out are. In multiple swirls of varying shades of black and gray, Saguil expressed various states of feelings. As the title of the period suggests, there is something lyrical and emotional in her works during this period &ndash; this piece, with its dark color palette and staccato swirls, portrays a creeping source of dread overtaking logic and happiness as this smoke-like swirls cover the only spots of color.</p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of a handful of Filipino artists to delve into abstraction in the 1950s, Nena Saguil was the only woman to feature in an unprecedented exhibition of non-objective art organised by the Philippines&rsquo; first art critic, Aurelio Alvero, in 1953,&rdquo; Archives of Women Artists, Research &amp; Exhibitions praised her in their website. Indeed, Nena Saguil, like another Filipina abstractionist Rosario Bitanga, opened a new door not just within their art circles but in Philippine art history as a whole, paving the way for many other women artists to take up space in what previously was a male-dominated field.</p>","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1000000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1201600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":56952,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/107/141/lot/76.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":75,"next":77,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}