{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22245,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"153","artist":"Juvenal Sansó (1929 - 2025)","title":"Amber Plains","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right) ca. 1970","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"19 1/2\" x 39\" (49 cm x 99 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Fundacion Sansó confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Artists convey subliminal messages through their art. More profoundly, they recreate their experiences on their canvases in accordance with their artistic vision and the viewer’s power to engross themselves in the art. For Juvenal Sansó, anguish is magnificently turned into something poignant. In the artist’s subconscious, his psyche has never fully recovered from the devastating effects of the Second World War. Often, the anatomy of anguish is not explicitly depicted by Sansó in his works, but it is the obscure part of his identity that seeks to be emancipated and make its presence felt as he paints. As embodied by this painting, the dominance of orange leaves a soft and subdued atmosphere that alludes to an evocative time where bliss pervaded the boyhood of Sansó and there was hardly any presence of desolation and agony. That period in the artist’s life can now only be painted in his canvases with wistful longing.
\nSansó said in an interview in Mexico: “The effects of the war are lasting and the wounds never heal. It is like living atop a volcano or quicksand, never knowing whether one will topple or not. For me, art has been the only escape from neurosis.” On the element of anguish in his works, the artist clearly expressed: “From the very beginning, my work has been expressionistic. I paint suffering, loneliness, and anguish because I have seen and known these intimately.”
\nIn Alfredo Roces’ Sansó, the esteemed art critic wrote: “Sansó can be expected to continue his visual outpouring in his urgency to find self-fulfillment in art: a pilgrim marooned from humanity by choice, reaching out through his paintings. He has charted his own career. The decision and the process have been painful, creating deep anguish; but he feels there is no other alternative to fulfill himself.”
\nSansó has always used his art as an avenue for escapism. This has become a personal fulfillment that has transcended beyond his creative virtuosity.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Juvenal Sansó (1929 - 2025) Amber Plains signed (lower right) ca. 1970 oil on canvas 19 1/2\" x 39\" (49 cm x 99 cm)