{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22240,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"149","artist":"Arturo Luz (1926 - 2021)","title":"Three Musicians","starting_price":1600000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right and verso) and dated 2000 (verso) ","medium":"acrylic on canvas ","size":"36\" x 48\" (91 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Luisa Luz Lansigan confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This masterpiece entitled Three Musicians, features three musicians, like thin, triple colonnades, ceremonially performing. Luz pursued this kind of image in many of his artworks wherein he even painted his “Musikero” series, depicting roving ragtag bands of mendicant street musicians carrying cymbals and horn, clarinet and drum, playing a cacophony of sounds in which Lifestyle Inquirer comments that the contrasting planes and lines between the musicians and the instruments they carried played again into Luz’s geometric bias. The artist said in an interview, “I was slowly beginning to realize that, for me, the subject was becoming less and less important, until, as a consequence, my paintings became simpler and simpler and I eventually wound up with a few objects, mostly still life,” he said. “It wasn’t the subject as such that interested me, but the shapes, the linear structure.” Overall, this masterpiece shows the two qualities of Luz’s style that are worth noting - elegance and wit.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Arturo Luz (1926 - 2021) Three Musicians signed (lower right and verso) and dated 2000 (verso) acrylic on canvas 36\" x 48\" (91 cm x 122 cm)