{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":56512,"auction_id":110,"set_id":144,"lot_number":"85","artist":"Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco (1912–1969)","title":"Study for Sinigang","starting_price":1400000,"signed_dated":"ca. 1959","medium":"watercolor on paper","size":"15\" x 9\" (38 cm x 23 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE DON LUIS MA. ARANETA COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":"Ayala Museum, Botong Francisco: A Nation Reimagined, Makati City, 4 December 2012 - 31 March 2013","literature":"Flores, Patrick D., Carlos Francisco II, Alice G. Guillermo, Ino M. Manao, Roberto G. Paulino, and D.M. Reyes. The Life and Art of Botong Francisco. Quezon City: Vibal Foundation, Inc., 2010. Full-color illustration and painting description on pages 138 - 139 and 229.
Samson, Ditas R. Botong Francisco: A Nation Imagined. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Ayala Museum from December 2012 to March 2013. Makati City: Ayala Foundation, Inc., 2012. Full-color illustration and painting description on page 67.","write_up":"The Poet of Angono Depicts the Traditional Lakeside Sinigang From the Don Luis Ma. Araneta Collection
LUIS MARIA ZARAGOZA ARANETA 1916 – 1984 Architect, philanthropist, art and antique connoisseur/ scholar/collector, heritage advocate, Amphitryon (host to the gods)/partygiver nonpareil
Luis Maria Zaragoza Araneta was a son of the distinguished lawyer Don Gregorio Araneta y Soriano and the heiress Dona Carmen Zaragoza y Roxas. Gregorio was the son of D Felix Araneta y Militante of Molo, Iloilo and Dna Paz Soriano y Ditching of Molo, Iloilo and Binondo, Manila. Carmen was the daughter of Don Jose Zaragoza y Aranquizna and of Dona Rosa Roxas y Arce. Dona Rosa Roxas y Arce belonged to the old and prominent Roxas clan of Manila but she accumulated her own vast fortune in real estate and other holdings; she was a second cousin to the affluent sisters Dona Carmen de Ayala y Roxas de Roxas and Dona Trinidad de Ayala y Roxas de Zobel (matriarchs of the present-day Roxas and Zobel clans).
Postwar, Luis married Emma Benitez of the famous clan of intellectuals and educators from Pagsanjan, Laguna and they had three children: Patricia, Gregorio, and Elvira. The youngest daughter Elvira Araneta was named for the beautiful and witty socialite Elvira Bermejo Ledesma-Manahan, Mrs Constantino P Manahan, who was Luis’ best female friend.
Many famous buildings in Manila were designed by Luis: Makati Medical Center, Manila Doctors Hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes church (Quezon city), the Immaculate Conception church now cathedral (Cubao), Times Theater, Botica Boie, Araneta bldg, Tuason bldg. Luis moved to his new house at #52 McKinley road, Forbes Park in 1959.
For the next two decades, his home was the epicenter of Manila high society with its endless parties. Rich and beautiful ladies like Elvira Ledesma-Manahan, Chito Madrigal-Vazquez-Collantes, Chona Recto-Ysmael-Kasten, Mary Hernandez-Prieto, Prissy de la Fuente-Sison, Josie Trinidad-Lichauco, Conching Chuidian Sunico, Pacita de los Reyes-Phillips and rich and handsome gentlemen like Jaime Zobel de Ayala, Senator Gerry Roxas, Dr Tito Manahan, Joe Guevara, Dr Chichos Vazquez, Ramon Valera all congregated there. When asked what made a Luis Araneta party great, high society chronicler Maurice Arcache answered: “The crowd! Oh the crowd, the crowd, the crowd!” (Augusto Marcelino Reyes Gonzalez III)
This petite watercolor work is Botong Francisco’s study for his 1959 mural Sinigang, formerly in the collection of Don Luis Ma. Araneta and now in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) collection.
The work features a couple preparing their hearty sinigang na isda meal. The woman is seen prepping and slicing the fish, which her husband has freshly caught. Placed on the banana leaf are the other ingredients: tamarinds, tomatoes, and siling haba. Another man on the lower left side prepares the bamboo to be used as firewood. The work manifests an “after the fish harvest” / “after a day’s bountiful catch” theme, especially highlighted by the two other men resting on the upper part of the composition.
Study for Sinigang would remain in the collection of Don Luis Araneta. It would be exhibited at the Ayala Museum in the Botong retrospective titled Botong Francisco: A Nation Reimagined, mounted in celebration of the venerable Angono artist’s birth centennial in late 2012. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1800000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1800000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2162880,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":60294,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/85.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":60750,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/85a.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":60749,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/110/144/lot/85b.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":84,"next":86,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}