{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":26560,"auction_id":31,"set_id":52,"lot_number":"131","artist":"Lee Aguinaldo (1933 - 2007)","title":"Linear No. 36","starting_price":3000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated March 18, 1966 (verso)","medium":"acrylic (aqua-tec) on marine plywood","size":"36” x 36” (91 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Linear No. 36 was among the works praised by Lee Aguinaldo’s friend and mentor Fernando Zobel in their exchange of correspondence on the subject of the Linear series. They “have a quality that is particularly elusive in hard-edged painting, i.e. that are personal and distinct,” Zobel wrote.<br /><br /> In 1966, Aguinaldo was coming off consecutive wins at the path-finding annual competition of the influential Art Association of the Philippines (AAP.) In 1961, he had received 2nd prize for White City; followed by a first in 1962 for Explosion in Gold and then, yet another prize for Explosion in Red in 1963.<br /><br /> In 1965, Painting No. One took home the AAP top prize again. It was an intense work with bands of black, white, and grey and is embryonic of this future work, now at hand. Linear No. 36 is thus at the pinnacle of Aguinaldo’s subtle gradations of light and shadow, creating a remarkable and uniquely serene work. <br /><br />To create the ultra-glossy surfaces of the Linear, The Life and Art of Lee Aguinaldo source book describes the following painstaking process : “The surface of each plywood was covered with up to 20 layers of gesso, each layer sanded manually before another layer was added… in an age-old technique used in preparing wood panels for icons.” <br /><br />Aguinaldo was also a maniac for technical detail and would list the brand name of the acrylic paint he used (i.e. Aqua-Tec). He would also insist on the highest grade of marine plywood from his father’s lumberyards.<br /><br /> He would idolize a strange pantheon of artists including the 17th century Juan Sánchez Cotán which inspired him to create luminous, precise images that were arranged on a window-like ledge, “the framed doorways and hallways that would lead to deep space”, according to the authoritative text about him. <br /><br />In Linear No. 36, the windows have transcended into the ether of possibility and taken flight in Aguinaldo’s limitless imagination.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":10000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":10000000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":11680000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":23965,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/31/52/lot/131.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":130,"next":132,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}