{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1892,"auction_id":4,"set_id":5,"lot_number":"161","artist":"Joven Mansit (b. 1948)","title":"Filipino Ladies in Sunday Dress","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"dated 2007","medium":"mixed media on canvas","size":"37\" x 36\" (94 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by The big & small art co. Gallery and signed by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"In all its absurdity, there is something haunting about the \nworks of Joven Mansit. While the colonial images of the \nFilipino we find in his works are familiar, they strike the \nviewer less with a sense of nostalgia and more with an \neerie familiarity. Even as he deploys a graphically absurd \nmanipulation of pictures referenced from late 19th \ncentury and early 20th century photographs, the result is \na sense of humor subdued by the ghostly and traditional \nrender in oil of a faded historical past—now distorted \nand grotesque. And yet, for all the graphic distortion \nemployed in Mansit’s paintings, they nonetheless bear \ntruths which, eerily, seem to ring truer than the original \nturn-of-the-century pictures he references.<br /><br />\nIn this mixed media work, Mansit references a turn-of-the-century photograph of the same name: Filipino Ladies in \nSunday Dress. While the original photograph captures \ntwo Filipinas garbed modestly in period clothing, Mansit’s \ncontemporary take is an undressing of truth. He redresses \none of the women in a revealing baro’t saya and turns \nthe image into that of a temptress who seduces comically \nwith a sliced papaya as the forbidden fruit of temptation. \nThe truth is thus bared: that such images akin to the \nmodest Maria Clara ideal are not as innocent as they are \npurported to be. Instead, they merely constitute part of a \ngrander picture of colonial and patriarchal myth-making \nthat paints the Maria Clara ideal of a Filipino lady—that \nis, a woman who is perfectly respectable exactly because \nof their allegedly modest and submissive character. <br /><br />\nThe criticality of Mansit’s paintings can be attributed \nto the allegorical play of images at work. The original \nphotographs he references are allegories in themselves, \ndeliberately underhanded in their intentions, in how they \npaint the Filipino natives in the grand scheme of history \nand things. Through Mansit’s contemporary technique, he \nadds another layer of allegory by referencing and then representing this ‘historically canon’ image of the Filipina. \nBy using an image from the colonial spectacle against \nitself, Mansit puts forward a new picture that is both \ndisturbingly off and familiar—or rather, more accurately, \nit disturbs because the artist puts forward a critical truth \nthat disturbs a colonial one. (Pie Tiausas)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":650000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":650000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":781040,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":1934,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/4/5/lot/161.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":160,"next":162,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}