{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1758,"auction_id":3,"set_id":4,"lot_number":"68","artist":"Jaime de Guzman (b. 1942)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1972 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"55 1/4\" x 35 1/2\" (140 cm x 90 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Jaime de Guzman was one of the most important figures in Philippine art in the late 1960s and early 70s: He was talented and fearlessly original, and above all, charismatic.
\nIn 1970, he would hit all the marks for the imprimatur of Manila’s cultural elite : anointed by Roberto Chabet among the very first of the all-powerful Cultural Center of the Philippines’ “Thirteen Artists”, selected to do the scenography of Virginia Moreno’s celebrated “Itim Asu” opera, and doted on by the country’s collectors who\nfound his stark and brooding works, however apocalyptic, strangely fascinating.
\nIn the same year, he would be commissioned by the GomBurZa Centennial Commission to do the commemorative memorial of the three martyred priests; and they would send him on a grant to Mexico City to observe the art of large-scale mural making.\nIt was on that trip that he would meet the American ceramic artist Anne Polkinhome who he would marry and bring home to the Philippines and his home in Liliw, Laguna at the foot of the mystical mountain of Banahaw.
\nThe work at hand is a highly personal portrait of his wife Anne, breast-feeding their first son, Fausto. He hated to part with the painting but circumstances at the time gave him no choice. The couple would continue to work together as artists, even moving to Sagada in the 80s but would eventually return to his native province shortly thereafter. The piece is as much an intimate memento aa much as a fragment of an important time of Filipino art history.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Jaime de Guzman (b. 1942) Mother and Child signed and dated 1972 (lower right) oil on canvas 55 1/4\" x 35 1/2\" (140 cm x 90 cm)