{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22399,"auction_id":25,"set_id":44,"lot_number":"141","artist":"Vicente Manansala (1910 - 1981)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and inscribed “New York-60” (lower left) \n1960","medium":"stained glass and light box","size":"30” x 59” x 15” (76 cm x 149 cm x 38 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Nothing exceptional transpired from Vicente Manansala’s subject matter since his contemporaries also made use of similar themes. Be that as it may, his manner of visual presentation through his augmented use of Transparent Cubism set his works apart. He was quoted to have said: “In the beginning, I have [a] picture in my mind which I want to paint. But that can change. I may start out with a mother and child and end up with a fish vendor.”
Scholarship and academic training overseas strengthened Manansala’s artistic virtuosity and made him encounter progressive mentors and artists. Prompted by his studies of stained-glass techniques in New York through the SmithMundt Specialist Grant in 1960, Manansala produced a limited number of stained-glass art pieces. However, the difficulty and expensiveness of obtaining the necessary materials in the local market prevented him from creating more works using this medium.
Depicted with great regularity, this piece depicting a mother sleeping beside her baby is one of Manansala’s many works on the subject of motherhood wherein he ingeniously executed his desired cloisonné effect. It is when he portrays the joys of motherhood where we can feel his homage, affinity, and benevolence towards Filipino women. Manansala also emphasized the contrast between form and color and the interdependence of the subject and the background as indicated by distinctive tonalities with an implied profundity. His consistent indigenization of cubism as he took inspiration from quintessential Filipino themes was noticeably transferred to his stained-glass creations. Coalescing religious, native, and poetic images is a trademark of Manansala’s distinct type of Transparent Cubism and has influenced numerous artists.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Vicente Manansala (1910 - 1981) Mother and Child signed and inscribed “New York-60” (lower left) 1960 stained glass and light box 30” x 59” x 15” (76 cm x 149 cm x 38 cm)