{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":55611,"auction_id":107,"set_id":141,"lot_number":"99","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"Pasay","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1932 (lower right)","medium":"oil on wood","size":"11\" x 18\" (28 cm x 46 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo\nconfirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"PROVENANCE\nAcquired directly from the artist by the family of Miss Frances Rodgers, daughter of Dr.\nJames B. and Mrs. Anna Rodgers, the first Presbyterian missionaries in the Philippines,\nwho had originally arrived in 1894 was a child.\nMiss Rodgers would become head of the Home Economics Department of Silliman\nUniversity and would become neighbor and friend to Mrs. Mary M. Bercovitz who\nwould receive it as a gift from Miss Rodger’s estate as she had instructed.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"<p>My husband, Nathaniel Bercovitz, our two-year old daughter Ellen, and I arrived in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines in February of 1958. My husband was to help install a radio transmitter for the United Church of Christ of the Philippines.</p>\n<p>We were housed on the campus of Silliman University and our neighbor across the street from us was Frances Rodgers. Her parents, Dr. James B and Mrs. Anna Rodgers had come to Manila in April 1894 (when Frances was 6 years old) as the first Presbyterian Missionaries to the Philippines.</p>\n<p>When we arrived, Frances was head of the Home Economics Department in the College of Liberal Arts of Silliman University. She had started Domestic Science classes there in 1917 which went on to become a full department in 1920. In 1930 it became the Home Economics Department and in 1986 a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics was included.</p>\n<p>Frances and I quickly became good friends. After all, I had taught Home Economics for one year at a Presbyterian Mission in Kentucky.</p>\n<p>I had admired the paintings of Philippine scenes which were hanging in her home. There was a large one of local scenes and with Frances&rsquo; help, as well as a canvas from a California friend, a local artist agreed to paint a picture for me, even agreeing to move the mountain I could see from my kitchen window so it would overlook the river where women did their laundering!</p>\n<p>Frances had several very nice paintings, but my favorite was one by Fernando Amorsolo, a lovely pastoral scene of everyday life. It was one which made me want to slow down, breath deeply, and enjoy &mdash; and to perhaps imagine myself joining the woman walking in the light next to the water.</p>\n<p>After Frances&rsquo; death in 1983, I received my Fernando Amorsolo painting from those who closed the estate. She had told me that she wanted me to have it because of how much I enjoyed it. I had no idea as to its value and I doubt she did either.</p>\n<p>I have thought of it as a gift of love from a dear friend. Now in my late 90s, and with poor eyesight, I am parting with it and hoping the person who comes in possession of it finds the same joy as I have had for so many years.</p>","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":6500000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":6500000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":7810400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":56978,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/107/141/lot/99.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":57205,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/107/141/lot/99c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":57204,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/107/141/lot/99b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":57203,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/107/141/lot/99a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":98,"next":100,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}