{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":21943,"auction_id":23,"set_id":42,"lot_number":"36","artist":"Emmanuel Garibay (b. 1962)","title":"Tandang Sora","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2012 (lower right)","medium":"pastel on paper","size":"31 1/2\" x 22\" (80 cm x 56 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Affectionately called by the katipuneros as Tandang Sora, Melchora Aquino is a key figure in the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. As the “Grand Old Lady of the Revolution,” her home in Balintawak became the refuge for the sick and wounded revolutionaries; she fed them, attended to their medical needs, and offered them motherly advice and prayers, as any mother would do for her children. Secret meetings of the Katipunan were also held at her house. She and her son, Juan Ramon, were also present in the Cry of Pugad Lawin and witnessed the revolutionaries’ tearing up of their cédulas personales.
\nWhen the Spaniards learned about her connection with the Katipunan, Tandang Sora was arrested and interrogated by the guardia civil. After refusing to divulge any information about the revolution, she was deported to Guam. She and a fellow prisoner Segunda Puentes were placed under house arrest in the residence of Don Justo Dungca. After Spain relinquished its control of the Philippines to the United States through the Treaty of Paris in 1898, Tandang Sora was allowed to return to her home country. Her homecoming in 1903 was welcomed by the former katipuneros, who took the opportunity as an act of gratitude to the mother of the revolution. Tandang Sora died in 1919 at the age of 107, outliving the colonial rule of the Spanish empire in the Philippines.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Emmanuel Garibay (b. 1962) Tandang Sora signed and dated 2012 (lower right) pastel on paper 31 1/2\" x 22\" (80 cm x 56 cm)