{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":14647,"auction_id":14,"set_id":26,"lot_number":"57","artist":"Juan Luna (1857 - 1899)","title":"Portrait of a Woman","starting_price":400000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"pen and ink on paper","size":"9 1/2\" x 5\" (24 cm x 13 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE DOÑA NENE QUIMSON COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Aside from his large, academic paintings, Luna did many small, more intimate works, including portraits. A number of Luna’s works show spontaneity and an elusive, ‘spur of the moment’ quality. Ramon Villegas once wrote that: “These quick sketches and close-in reviews of his world were done to satisfy only his own standards, to see if what he saw in his mind was as pleasing as what his brush could paint, and what his eyes could see.” The same can be said about these pencil on paper sketches.
\nThe casual sketchy qualities of the fleeting moment, which the Impressionists sought to capture on canvas are discernible in Luna’s sketches. They also invite a more lasting acquaintance with the artist than other mediums allow. Here, interest in the “unfinished” qualities of a good sketch complete with impromptu vitality is what the informal side of Luna shares with the Impressionists, but nothing else. The informality is balanced by the decisiveness of line and casual assurance of the resulting anonymous portrait. Luna’s mastery of using pen and ink show the spontaneity and spur-ofthe-moment quality of oil sketches. In its size, erudite detailing, and happily unapologetic academism, Luna’s portraiture of everyday people are as much a chronicle of the European zeitgeist as it is a work of art.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Juan Luna (1875 - 1899) Portrait of a Woman pen and ink on paper 9 1/2\" x 5\" (24 cm x 13 cm)