{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1915,"auction_id":4,"set_id":5,"lot_number":"183","artist":"Manuel A. Rodriguez Sr. (1912 - 2017)","title":"Market Day","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2002 (lower right)","medium":"acrylic on canvas","size":"30” x 40” (76 cm x 102 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":"Cajipe Endaya, Imelda, ed. Manuel Rodriguez, Sr.: Into the Threshold. New York: Lenore RS Lim Foundation for the Arts and Manuel Rodriguez, Sr., 2009. Full-color photograph and painting\ndescription on page 107.","write_up":"Market Day immortalizes Manuel A. Rodriguez Sr.'s \nhope and healing amidst the physical ruins and moral \ndevastation of war. Rodriguez, his wife Naty, and their \nfirst-born Manuel \"Boy\" Jr. had been living in Intramuros \nwhen the Japanese invaded Manila in December 1941. \nRodriguez wanted to transfer his family to his native \nCebu but changed his mind after the last boat to the \nprovince tragically sunk in the heavily mined waters of \nManila Bay. Rodriguez and his family then decided to \nsettle temporarily and wait for the cessation of the war \nin the humble town of Pasacao in Camarines Sur, his \nwife's homeland.<br /><br />\nPasacao would not be spared from the atrociousness of \nthe Japanese forces. According to Pasacao’s historical \ndata papers from the National Library of the Philippines, \nthe soldiers established their headquarters in the \npoblación and killed those they suspected as spies or \nguerilla members. Occasionally, they would steal some of \nthe people’s properties, including household belongings, \ncrops, and livestock. Houses, especially those that the \nowners abandoned were burned to the ground. <br /><br />\nThe current owner, a friend of the late artist, vividly \nreminisces: He [Rodriguez] loved this place so much that \nhe vividly remembered it as if it was yesterday. When \nWorld War II broke out, this town was completely burned \nto the ground by the Japanese forces. He told me that he \nfelt so sad to see everything gone.<br /><br />\n\"That's why when he created this painting for me, it took \nhim five months to finish because he was constantly \nbeing \"called \"to make it better. Each time he thought it \nwas finished, he told me that he couldn't allow himself \nto stop; Mang Maning felt like if he stopped short of \nperfection, he wouldn't give this piece commemorating \nthat town and its people justice.\"<br /><br />\nThe bursting of colors and their harmonious dancing \nwith the artist's brush strokes create a throbbing effect, \nwhich Rodriguez coined \"color vibrations.\" \"He believes \nthat colors bring positive and healing properties and \nenergy to the person observing his painting,\" says the \nowner. \"That's why Mang Maning told me that there's \nnot a single brushstroke of black in this piece, Market \nDay, because black is not a healing color, according \nto him. He believes in color vibrations so much that he \nmeditates in front of his personal piece each morning \nwhen he wakes up. I guess it worked for him because \nhe was 100+ before he passed away.\" (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":1923,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/4/5/lot/183.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":182,"next":184,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}