{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":59771,"auction_id":186,"set_id":220,"lot_number":"56","artist":"Antonio Austria (b. 1936)","title":"Bilyar","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1984 (upper left and verso)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"29\" x 47 1/4\" (74 cm x 120 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Using the crowded billiard hall scene as a lens to examine community, control, and everyday Filipino life, Antonio Austria's Bilyar seeks to offer a powerful reflection on social confinement, shared hardship, and the silent endurance of everyday life—with the game itself being used as a social metaphor for life and society where each ball navigates on limited space, colliding others and was subjected to forces beyond their control. \n\nWith the central figures portraying a pool table surrounded by people, essentially creating a compressed claustrophobic composition, their gaze at the game creates a sense of collective tension as the balls clash and roll around the table. The crowded environment hints at societal pressure; their mix of ages and genders suggests that the game affects everyone.\n\nCreated around 1984, Austria's painting reflects a period in our history marked by political tension, social inequality, and widespread uncertainty. Through his visual language, the art piece transforms an ordinary pastime into a quiet representation of collective struggle. Where leisure becomes a meaningless illusion meant to distract people while deeper societal constraints run rampant in their daily lives. (Mark John Castañeda)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":900000,"bp":0.18,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":900000,"userBid":34,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":15067,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":1062000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":65266,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/56.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":65496,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/56c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":65495,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/56b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":65494,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/56a.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":55,"next":57,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}