{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":57461,"auction_id":116,"set_id":150,"lot_number":"36","artist":"José Joya (1931 - 1995)","title":"Blue Harbor","starting_price":16000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1966 (lower right)","medium":"oil on wood panel","size":"32” x 48” (81 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Josefa Joya Baldovino confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist<br /> León Gallery, The Kingly Treasures Auction 2015, Makati City, 05 December 2015, Lot 33","exhibited":"León Gallery at Art Fair Philippines 2023, The Internationalists: Zóbel, Joya, Makati City, 17 - 19 February 2023","literature":"The Internationalists: Zóbel, Joya. Published to accompany the Leon Gallery exhibition of the same name at Art Fair Philippines 2023. Makati City: Leon Gallery, 2023. Full-color illustration and painting description on page 21.","write_up":"\"Blue Harbor” was done two years after Joya represented the country in the 32nd Venice Biennale in 1964, and just before his John D. Rockefeller III and Ford Foundation Grants to paint in New York from 1967 to 1969. In the brochure that accompanied the Philippine delegation to the 1964 Biennale, delegation commissioner Emmanuel Torres wrote about the “lyrical states of mind” that were manifested in Joya’s works during the period. “Blue Harbor” is part of that same abstract expressionist period, when he allowed himself to simply “let loose,” and all the power and painterly vitality of that crucial phase in his career breaks out from the forceful blue hues. Joya’s paintings affirm mastery of gestural paintings. Paint is applied intuitively and spontaneously, in broad brush strokes, using brushes or spatulas or is directly squeezed from the tube and splashed across the canvas.<br><br>Joya told Cid Reyes in 1973: “I know exactly where the splash will fall, and as regards to the element of chance or accident, I believe that too, can be controlled... Accident, then, becomes an integral part of the painting.” Crisscrosses and a variety of colors are applied in broad patches. Juxtaposed forms, simultaneously advance and recede, creating subtle tension and complex rhythms. Joya adds: “Most of my paintings were executed in the shortest possible time. Here the element of spontaneity comes into the picture.” Sometimes the images burst out in lush, vibrant colors, creating haphazard planes.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":21000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":21000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":21000000,"hammer_price":25233600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":61948,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/116/150/lot/36.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[],"prev":35,"next":37,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}