{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":56467,"auction_id":110,"set_id":144,"lot_number":"40","artist":"Macario Vitalis (1898 - 1990)","title":"Still Life","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1945 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"32\" x 25 3/4\" (81 cm x 65 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Comité Vitalis confirming the\nauthenticity of this lot","provenance":"Private Collection, Paris","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Macario Vitalis belongs among the roster of artists who find themselves enamoured by the streets and the life in France. After spending several years in the United States after leaving the Philippines, Vitalis soon embarked for Paris in 1925. Although this period was marked as a difficult one financially, it was in the City of Art that he flourished in his art.<br /><br />His still-life, in particular, is a result of his artistic odyssey. Beginning at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts and then the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts, it follows that Vitalis, too, has mastered this theme. He particularly likes Paul Cézanne’s still-life paintings, which often include portrayals of fruits.<br /><br />Vitalis’s still-lifes are often comprised of bouquets of flowers. The influence of several modernist painters is evident in his oeuvre, especially since his settlement in Puteaux and its group of ragtag artists. In this particular still-life, one could pick up Vitalis’ vivid colors and unique brushstrokes, lending to quite an interesting depiction of flowers. Indeed, Vitali brings life into his subjects, spinning an infinite web of stories using only inanimate objects preserved in a single snapshot of time. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":650000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":650000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":781040,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":60313,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/40.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":60629,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/40b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60627,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/40a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[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":39,"next":41,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}