{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":56503,"auction_id":110,"set_id":144,"lot_number":"80","artist":"Fabian de la Rosa (1869 - 1937)","title":"Portrait of a Man with a Hat","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1910 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"29\" x 19\" (74 cm x 48 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Paris","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Fabian de la Rosa At the Dawn of a New Century A Masterpiece from de la Rosa’s Second Artistic Period by ADRIAN MARANAN <br /><br /> It is an indisputable fact that Fabian de la Rosa shaped the trajectory of Philippine painting at the dawn of the 20th century, a crucial period of transition from one colonial empire to another. In this milieu, Philippine painting was freeing itself from the confines of Spanish academism towards the relaxed and liberated atmosphere of Impressionism, thanks to Luna and Hidalgo's exposure to French modernism <br /><br /> \"De la Rosa was the transition between the end of the Spanish period and the beginning of the American occupation,\" wrote Alfredo Roces in his footnotes in his monograph on Fernando Amorsolo. \"…Having been abroad twice, [de la Rosa] even tried to incorporate some of the impressionist influences…\" <br /><br /> The art historian and critic Aurelio Alvero (Magtanggul Asa) divided de la Rosa's career into three distinct yet overlapping periods. Of his first period, Alvero wrote as \"reveal[ing] an academical art, whose dark tones seek the classical. He details figures but misses atmosphere. De la Rosa's magnum opus of his first period is the iconic Planting Rice, which won the gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis International Exposition, making him only the fourth Filipino artist to garner international recognition after Simon Flores, Luna, and Hidalgo. <br /><br /> Planting Rice can be best described as possessing \"the principles of painstaking drawing and harmonious colors,\" as the art historian Luciano P.R. Santiago put it in his essay \"Fabian de la Rosa, 20th Century Filipino Master.\" <br /><br /> By the second decade of the 1900s, de la Rosa would begin his creative metamorphosis, emancipating himself from the overtly elaborate and design-centered realm of his academic upbringing. De la Rosa's artistic renaissance is attributed to his two-year European sojourn as a pensionado. <br /><br /> De la Rosa was supposed to leave for Spain in 1898 to study under a scholarship grant at the famed Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. However, this did not materialize when the second phase of the Philippine Revolution broke out. In 1908, de la Rosa's dream of studying abroad finally materialized when his foremost patron, the famous Dr. Ariston Bautista Lin, through funding from his own Compania General de Tabacos, sponsored his scholarship to Europe. <br /><br /> De la Rosa found the dynamic artistic climate of Europe suitable to his creative impulses; he saw in their unbridled grandeur, for the very first time, the works of the legendary European maestros hanging in major museums, which he had only previously seen in magazines. \"For the first time, he beheld, studied, and copied the works of the old masters in European museums, which he had only seen previously in poor copies,\" wrote Santiago. \"He also painted landscapes and the portraits of notables in Rome and Paris, such as the Countess Berny.\" <br /><br /> De la Rosa enrolled at the Academie Julian in Paris and studied under the famous French portraitist Marcel-André Baschet. Notably, the Academie Julian was highly regarded for its inclusive learning environment, contrasting with its more famous yet conservative sister, the Ecole des BeauxArts. The liberal training the Academie Julian offered not only nurtured the development of avant-garde styles but also encouraged numerous foreign artists to hone their artistic talents (the Ecole des Beaux-Arts was notorious for its ridiculously difficult French examination, an obstacle to aspiring foreign students), including de la Rosa, the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, American impressionists Theodore Robinson and Robert Henri, French PostImpressionist Paul Sérusier, Cubist pioneer Fernand Leger, Fauvist leader Henri Matisse, and Dadaist icon Marcel Duchamp. <br /><br /> De la Rosa would return to the Philippines in 1910, armed with a newfound sense of artistry. The work at hand, titled Portrait of a Man with a Hat, was painted by de la Rosa immediately after his homecoming. This period would mark de la Rosa's Impressionist phase, making him a key figure in the development of Philippine Impressionism. <br /><br /> During this time, de la Rosa had also just joined the faculty of the newly established University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts as an instructor in decorative arts, which would become his primary source of income alongside painting genre scenes and portraits of European and American expats. <br /><br /> Baschet's influence is discerned through the work's lighter atmosphere, contrasting with the heavier, darker undertones of de la Rosa's paintings during his first artistic phase, where he was under the rigid spell of classicism. The work possesses impressionistic undertones, discernible in how de la Rosa juxtaposes his use of a lighter color scheme with his solid foundation in classical realism, resulting in a palpable airiness. The lighter palette also emphasizes the mood, implying a lack of tension between the sitter and the painter and a refined elegance that speaks of a renewed glow in one's creative vision.","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":60290,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/80.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":60748,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/80b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60747,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/80a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"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":79,"next":81,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}