{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":26519,"auction_id":31,"set_id":52,"lot_number":"89","artist":"Hernando R. Ocampo (1911 - 1978)","title":"Homage To A Lady","starting_price":5000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1967 (lower right and verso)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 36” (61 cm x 92 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"A gift from then First Lady Imelda R. Marcos, 1967","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Foremost abstractionist H.R. Ocampo was completely a selftaught artist hailed as a master colorist who remains an influential force for his abstract and non-objective incursions. Also a newspaperman, he created the term “Neo-Realists” in 1950, together with writer Aguilar Cruz to identify themselves as the second wave of modern Filipino artists, alongside Manansala, Legaspi, Tabuena, and Estella. His distinct interlocking shapes of hue upon hue, building on each other to create a dynamic visual language, cemented his name in Philippine art history as the Father of Philippine Modern Abstraction. His eloquence in the language of color is also undisputable. Critic Ricaredo Demetillo wrote: “His colors are rich, suggestive of beneficence and tenderness, pure greens, warm reds and oranges, lovely purples and juicy yellows.” <br /><br /> Ocampo himself identified the various stages of his artistic evolution: the “Amorsolo” period referring to the maestro’s lyrical style (1929 to 1934), “proletarian” period in which he expressed social unrest due to the ravages of war (1934 to 1945), “transitional” stage with the birth of his neo-realism (1945 to 1963), “mutants” period (representing his terrors at the atomic age; 1963 to 1967), and the most-celebrated visual melody period (from 1967 onwards). This mesmerizing abstract piece of an engaging visual field showcases his authority in rendering abstract shapes in luminous hues and color shades, created the year he started his visual melody period. Masterfully displayed is a visual feast of interlocking shapes in effective colorization distinctly his.  <br /><br />This piece was painted on the same year as “Genesis,” the artist’s most important work that hangs in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":14000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":14000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":16352000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":23933,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/31/52/lot/89.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":88,"next":90,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}