{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":57447,"auction_id":116,"set_id":150,"lot_number":"25","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"Water Carrier","starting_price":7000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1938 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"17 1/2\" x 13\" (44 cm x 33 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist by Kate Bigelow-Montague, wife of Guy\nJudson Montague, who was the resident manager of the Balatoc gold\nmines in Itogon, Benguet in the 1930s. Mrs. Montague purchased the\npainting from Amorsolo before she returned to California in 1938.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Amorsolo and the Philippine Gold Rush by LISA GUERRERO NAKPIL\nIn March 1934, Time Magazine — the most influential newsmagazine of the 20th century — would report breathlessly, “Last week the two biggest gold mines in the Philippines announced their dividends for 1933. Benguet Consolidated Mining, formed in 1903 when the industry had hardly begun, was a richly paying enterprise even before it acquired control of its chief competitor, Balatoc Mining.<br><br>It continued, “Benguet and Balatoc just voted their stockholders a 100% dividend of $4,100,000. Balatoc for its part proudly announced that the average value per ton of its ore had been $16.13, against an average of $6.35 at the Rand mines of South Africa, producers of half the world’s gold. Benguet and Balatoc, managed by John W. Haussermann, a U. S. citizen long resident in Manila, comprise about 80% of the Philippine gold industry. <br><br>And when the U. S. started buying gold last year, 58 new mining brokers registered at “Manila in a single month and 30 new companies were incorporated — almost all of their officers and men, now newly-minted millionaires, would seek out Fernando Amorsolo for fine art for their homes and as keepsakes for when they returned to the United States. He was by then already well-established as the premier artist of his time.<br><br>One of these Baguio-based Americans was Guy Judson Montague of Bay Point, California (in the San Francisco Bay area). He would meet and marry Kate Bigelow who was born in Colefax, Washington. She had two degrees from the University of California and had began writing at an early age, doing mostly short stories and articles for magazines.<br><br>Guy would become a highly successful miner. In the 1930’s, according to family records, he was the resident manager of the the Balatoc gold mine, one of the most wildly profitable in the country. Kate would write about her experiences in this sprawling mining complex in the novel, “Send the Wise Wind.”<br><br>From the book jacket: \"From 1930 to 1935 Kate Bigelow Montague lived in the mountain province of northern Luzon. ….During that time she journeyed deep into the Igorot vilages attending their weddings, their burials and their many festivals. Her love for these people grew and after spending a year in study in Manila in 1937, she knew that one day she would write about them. \"Send the Wise Wind\" is that book, her first novel.<br><br>Indeed the Philippine Gold Rush of the 1930s coincided with one of Amorsolo’s richest creative periods. Amorsolo would go from strength to strength, painting tirelessly.<br><br> He would illustrate commonwealth textbooks and an endless stream of magazine covers. He would animate the Manila Carnival but also paint historical allegories for French expositions.<br><br>Like his ancestors before him who would breach the international veil, Simon Flores and Fabian de la Rosa, Amorsolo would also exhibit in both Paris and New York fairs. He would also provide murals for Juan Arellano’s elegant art deco monolith, the Metropolitan Theater.<br><br>“Water Carrier” captures a woman at work, carrying an earthenware pot to fetch water as she crosses a green river. She crosses the brown sandy banks, highlighted by the heavy impasto typical of Amorsolo’s style in the 1930s. The starched sleeves of her native dress and her checkered scarf stand out against the deep colors of the water behind her.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":10000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":10000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":12016000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":61937,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/116/150/lot/25.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":62415,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/116/150/lot/25b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":62414,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/116/150/lot/25c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":62411,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/116/150/lot/25a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":24,"next":26,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}