{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1743,"auction_id":3,"set_id":4,"lot_number":"55","artist":"Fabián de la Rosa (1869 - 1937)","title":"Landscape with Nipa Hut","starting_price":600000,"signed_dated":"signed, inscribed Manila and dated 1905 (lower right)","medium":"watercolor on paper","size":"13\" x 9 1/2\" (33 cm x 24 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"The \"Germinal\" Cigarette Factory's Souvenir, Manila, August 1905; Private Collection, UK","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Fabian de la Rosa Master of Plein-Air by LISA GUERRERO NAKPIL
\nIn 1905, the year this peaceful paisaje or country scene was painted, Fabian de la Rosa had most certainly come into his own.
He had skillfully developed a talent for plein-air painting, honed on the sidewalks of Manila when he was obliged to make and sell handpainted postcards for the tourist trade.
De la Rosa had deftly followed in the tradition of his uncle before him, Simon Flores of renown, slowly but surely building a well-heeled clientele first of Spanish and then the newly-minted American officialdom.
One of his first patrons was the American consul Williams who would rescue him from imprisonment as a combatant in the Philippine-American War.
It was Williams who would arrange various important commissions including the depiction of “The Death of General Lawton.” That major canvas would travel to the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904. It was another work, however, titled “Planting Rice”, that would attract public adulation at the American exposition designed to showcase its first colonial acquisition, the Philippines, and bring home the gold for de la Rosa.
Thus, he would be basking in the afterglow of this triumph when his old friend and another influential patron, Dr. Ariston Bautista Lin would commission this and probably other watercolors on behalf of the Germinal Cigar and Cigarette Company that he owned.
Dr. Bautista was one of the original ilustrados who had been educated in Madrid and lived in Paris, a familiar and confidante of Jose Rizal and the Luna brothers. The mark of La Germinal gives this charming artwork an additional pedigree and provenance.
The work at hand employs an rare and unusual approach to this paisaje : a view of a “sapa” or little creek as a device to mirror in its quiet reflection the gentle view of bananas and bamboos. The thatched hut appears to be constructed as an afterthought, although its careful detailing says otherwise.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Fabián de la Rosa (1869 - 1937) Landscape with Nipa Hut signed, inscribed Manila and dated 1905 (lower right) watercolor on paper 13\" x 9 1/2\" (33 cm x 24 cm)