{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1724,"auction_id":3,"set_id":4,"lot_number":"35","artist":"Emmanuel Garibay (b. 1962)","title":"Kisig","starting_price":240000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"25\" x 23 1/2\" (64 cm x 60 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Foremost social realist Emmanuel Garibay keeps not a secret his profound admiration for our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, and it shows in many of his paintings. Such is the case with this particular piece, in which Garibay depicts Rizal, dressed in a white garment, with his right hand holding a rose and, on his left, a copy of his great novel El Filibusterismo. An image of Inang Bayan hangs in the background. The work's title, Kisig, encapsulates Rizal's heroism and steadfast devotion to his motherland amid persecution by the Spanish authorities.<br /><br />The image of Rizal delicately holding a rose symbolizes our connection with and love for the motherland. The metaphorical image of the flower evokes a passage in Rizal's first published essay titled El Amor Patrio (The Love of Country), where he writes: \"For in the land of our birth, the memory of our earliest years still lingers like an enchanted fairy taking a stroll, visible only to the eyes of children, the flower of innocence and bliss sprouting at her feet…The woods and plains, every tree, every bush, every flower bear the images of people you love; you feel their breath in the sweet-smelling breeze, hear their song in the sound of the fountains, see their smile in the brilliance of the sun, sense their anxieties in the troubled howling of winds at night.\" (English translation by Fr. Raul Bonoan, republished in his article \"Rizal's First Published Essay: El Amor Patrio\" in the Philippine Studies journal)<br /><br /> The rose, along with the powerful image of the influential \"El Fili,\" is also symbolic of Rizal's aspirations for genuine emancipation from the bondage of colonialism. In the same essay, he writes: \"The rosy dawn rises in the horizon, scattering sweet and quiet rays of light, harbinger of life and peace….\"<br /><br /> For Rizal, el amor patrio is the most sublime kind of love, for it \"has inspired the grandest, the most heroic, and the most selfless of deeds.\" Therefore, in this context, the term kisig is now translated into a compelling metaphor for one's unconditional love of the country and the unfaltering determination to safeguard the gift of independence and self-determination that our noble heroes and ancestors have gallantly fought for. (A.M.)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Emmanuel Garibay</strong> (b. 1962)<br /><em>Kisig</em> <br />signed (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />25\" x 23 1/2\" (64 cm x 60 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":600000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":600000,"userBid":6367,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":700800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":1733,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/3/4/lot/35.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":34,"next":36,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}