{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":56482,"auction_id":110,"set_id":144,"lot_number":"59","artist":"Fernando Zóbel (1924 - 1984)","title":"Versión en Toledo","starting_price":16000000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower left and verso) titled and inscribed \"Retocado y terminado al 22 Agosto 1977 en Cuenca\" (verso) dated 1975","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"51\" x 51\" (130 cm x 130 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Galería Theo, Madrid","exhibited":null,"literature":"De la Torre, Alfonso and Rafael Pérez-Madero. Fernando Zóbel: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (1946 - 1984). Madrid: Fundación Azcona, 2022. Listed as \"75-31 VERSION EN TOLEDO\" with full-color illustration and painting description on page 525.","write_up":"Two years in the making, Fernando Zóbel’s Versión en Toledo is a testament to the artist’s continuous and growing pursuit of his art. He was already rooted in Spain decades before Versión en Toledo was created – Zóbel started venturing into Europe around the 1950s, establishing connections by 1955 and formally hosting a solo exhibition at Galería Biosca in 1959. This exhibition put Zóbel on the map as he was immediately recognized as an artist to watch out for. The next few years saw Zóbel on frequent travels between the Philippines, the United States, and Europe. <br /><br /> In 1963, Zóbel was searching for a place to host his art collection. Proximity to Spain’s center Madrid was first considered, as he aimed for the place to also provide accommodations to other artists. Toledo was a city he had visited frequently in the past, and so it was the initial pick. He even started referring to this nebulous idea as the “Toledo project.” <br /><br />However, it seems as though his subconscious had another idea. On March 12, 1964, he wrote to his friend Gerardo Rueda: “I had planned on spending the night in Rome, but I really want to go back to CUENCA (It sounds like a joke, but I have even managed to dream about Cuenca. Without knowing how, exactly, with Cuenca, I have managed to fill an unsuspected void I had been dragging around.)” <br /><br />This search culminated in the creation of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca, where another wave of Zóbel’s creative genius was spent. <br /><br />Versión en Toledo was dated 1975 with its completion date marked as 22 August 1997 in Cuenca. More than a decade since the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español’s opening, it seems as though Toledo was still a fond memory for Zóbel. The years between Zóbel’s first inkling of “the Toledo project” to the creation of Versión en Toledo were considered by Juan Manuel Bonet in his Fernando Zóbel: The 1970s essay as the “longest stage in Zóbel’s painting.” He slowly began returning to colors — siennas, grays, dark browns, and, as Versión en Toledo shows, ochres started their return. <br /><br />In 1975, the same year as his completion of this painting, Zóbel wrote: “My paintings involve a great deal of thinking, although obviously, instincts and the subconscious play vital roles. Nevertheless, and perhaps paradoxically, I do not apply any particular theory in a deliberate manner.” Indeed, his works are the perfect blend of intellectual and spontaneity, a reflection of his Filipino and Spanish sides. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":24000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":24000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":28838400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":60269,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":60685,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59f.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60684,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59d.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60683,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59e.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60682,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60681,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60680,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/59a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[],"prev":58,"next":60,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}