{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":26571,"auction_id":31,"set_id":52,"lot_number":"145","artist":"Fernando Zobel (1924 - 1984)","title":"Atardecer en la curva antes de llegar  a Horcajada de la Torre (Sunset in the curve  before reaching Horcajada de la Torre)","starting_price":5000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1968 (lower right and verso)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"31” x 31” (80 cm x 80 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Gift of the artist to the Lowenthal family, New York, USA.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The canon of Fernando Zobel’s body of work is one defined by experimentation and change. As an artist, Zobel was not primarily concerned with art itself, but how art translates everything that environs it such as society, culture, humanity, and life itself. A poet among painters, Zobel’s search for a life in art and as painter has taken Fernando Zobel around the world. His art’s reality is a subtle simplicity that suggests the influences of a complex intellectual training. Thus, a chronological look at Zobel’s work is a look at the artist’s quest for the immutable and timeless aspects of beauty, form, and art itself. As an emerging artist, Zobel was mainly influenced by the Boston School, a group of artists that utilized emotional directness, spirituality, and political themes in order to achieve a satirical piece that talked about the modern world. After that, Zobel was then moved by the works by Mark Rothko, which then marked his shift from more figurative works to his acclaimed and groundbreaking Abstract Expressionist era. Audiences and viewers are much more familiar with Zobel’s Abstract Expressionist era which exemplifies a formalistic approach to the genre with its minimalist palette and Zobel strict adherence to form. <br /><br />In this piece entitled Atardecer en la curva antes de llegar a Horcajada de la Torre, we see a piece from the visual maestro that can be considered a culmination of his years of artistic experimentation. A gift to the prominent Lowenthal family of New York, the piece was created after Zobel’s monochromatic Serie Negra series. During this period, Zobel reportedly began to return to color through his works such as Atienza, Armadura III, and Pancorbo as a way of capturing life’s memories in pictorial terms. But despite this, rather than fully returning to his figurative era, Zobel continued to experiment with his craft. His latter works, in which this piece relatively belongs to, can be exemplified in a statement by the artist himself wherein “Form and background are now fused. Everything has become background, or, if you prefer, everything has turned into form.” In this piece that resembles an ethereal view of the setting sun, Zobel manages to synthesize his lifelong artistic experiment by fuzing the inherent lyricism of his earlier works with the complex formalism of his later outings. In a sense, the piece perfectly captures the acclaimed master in his twilight.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":7000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":7000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":8176000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":23998,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/31/52/lot/145.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":144,"next":146,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}