{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":56502,"auction_id":110,"set_id":144,"lot_number":"76","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"After the Harvest","starting_price":6000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1963 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 34” (61 cm x 86 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN OVENSTONE COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This 1963 work by Fernando Amorsolo follows a favored theme of his: the rice cycle. It has been portrayed multiple times throughout his oeuvre – from its early mornings to hot afternoons, from its burgeoning beginnings to its plentiful harvests. Or, in this case, the end of a day’s hard work, where the people are tying up their harvests as the sun sets on their backs. <br /><br /> Upon his entry into the Philippine art scene, Amorsolo has always been known for the quality of his Philippine sunlight. Here, decades later, his sunlight still shines bright and vibrant. Gone was the brown haze that had dominated the scene prior to his arrival – now, the Philippine landscape glitters under Amorsolo’s brush, portraying it as though it is the real thing. With sure, definite strokes that got more assured over the years, Amorsolo’s figures bask under the late afternoon sun, their figures slim but strong. <br /><br /> However, the crème de la crème of this piece is his handling of the shadows. Says Alfredo Roces in a 1972 interview: “Sunlight in this country washes out color, and Amorsolo must have known this…[however] you look at Amorsolo’s paintings and you will see that all the colors are in the shadows.” <br /><br /> Indeed, the shadows in this piece do not underwhelm. It is still as vibrant as the rest of the work is, its colors not muted in the slightest. It is quintessentially Filipino in its brightness, befitting the artist whose works and life closely tracked that of the Philippines. <br /><br /> The beauty of an Amorsolo landscape shines in this piece, which is dynamic in every aspect. In this work, all his figures are moving – they are active in the wrap-up of their daily activities – as the wind blows through the leaves of the trees. <br /><br /> “[The] surrounding vegetation and the dense masses of bamboo and mango trees teem with organic life, with a sense of contained quivering vibration,” Amorsolo: Love & Passion writes. “Looking at an Amorsolo landscape, how can any Filipino not respond to the sight of certain specific images that instantly define his Filipino-ness?” <br /><br /> “Despite the reality that many of these rice fields have now given way to subdivisions of the middle class,” it continues, “Amorsolo’s canvases have become veritable landscapes of the memory, where the mind and heart can move freely as easily as our eyes roam across these illusionary fields of loose, pigmented brushstrokes dispensing light, alive with the intense gleams and skeins of yellow-golds, warm orange, russet browns, sky blues, pale pinks, and vigorous, verdant greens.” (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":9500000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":9500000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":11415200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":60287,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/76.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":60737,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/76c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60736,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/76b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60735,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/76a.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":75,"next":77,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}