{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22243,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"152","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931 - 2005)","title":"Watermelon on Table","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1975 (upper left) ","medium":"oil on canvas ","size":"16\" x 20\" (41 cm x 51 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Finale Art File confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Still lifes are a recurring theme in Philippine modernist art. In the pantheon of Filipino modernists, Ang Kiukok exceptionally stood out in unraveling the profound potency of a still life composition. Kiukok’s early still lifes depict linear forms on textured surfaces rendered in restrained colors of grey and brown. As his career progressed, Kiukok employed a more sophisticated and vividly-colored cubist grouping of tables with fruits, bottles, or potted plants placed on its top. Art critic Alfredo Roces further described these still lifes as having lines and planes that “perform a dance of spatial illusion. In Kiukok: Deconstructing Despair, Roces wrote: “In many Kiukok still lifes, there breathes some emotional component, if only as an aura of spirituality or a hint of anxiety.” According to the celebrated art critic, Kiukok’s watermelons seem to speak of “repressed sensuality.” The watermelons in this piece are depicted as irregularly shaped tetrahedrons arranged in a kaleidoscopic formation. The fruits are spread across an upside-down table and seemingly floating across the surface of the canvas. Color, line, and shape form a masterfully executed interplay of images. To an extent, Kiukok remains detached throughout the painting process since it is the stylization of reality where the focal point of this piece lies.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Ang Kiukok (1931 - 2005) Watermelon on Table signed and dated 1975 (upper left) oil on canvas 16\" x 20\" (41 cm x 51 cm)