{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1929,"auction_id":4,"set_id":5,"lot_number":"26","artist":"Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914 - 2012)","title":"Laughter","starting_price":22000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1957 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24\" x 20\" (61 cm x 51 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Philippine Art Gallery","exhibited":"Philippine Art Gallery, November 30 - December 10, 1957","literature":null,"write_up":"In the last months of 1957, Anita Magsaysay-Ho would \nreturn formally to exhibit at the Philippine Art Gallery after a \nfour-year hiatus from its walls. It would also be a foray into \noil painting after her egg tempera works from the early 1950s.<br /><br />\nMagsaysay-Ho would hold the art scene in thrall through \nthe years with one riveting market scene after another : \nwinning notice for Fish Vendors at the next semi-annual AAP \ncompetition, followed shortly by another triumph for Fruit \nVendors, tail-gating the highly respected Fernando Zobel the \nfollowing year for top honors.<br /><br />\nLaughter, the work at hand, captures a bevy of women in \na light-hearted moment, the familiar faces wearing white \nscarves, wreathed in wide smiles. Two women in the foreground \nappear to be exchanging lively banter; two others join in the \nhigh spirits, while a third, make a faint attempt at restraining \na fit of giggles<br /><br /> The joyous artwork — alongside Fruit Market (auctioned in the \nLeón Gallery Asian Cultural Council Auction of this year — was \nexhibited in the last solo show of the year of the Philippine Art \nGallery as detailed in the all-important tag, taking place from \nNovember 30th to December 10th, 1957. (The records show \nthat the princely sum of P350 was paid for it, at the time, a \nsmall fortune.)<br /><br />\nIt would reprise a theme that first appeared in 1950, titled \nTawanan (Laughter) of acrylic on board, presently in the \ncollection of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Library and Museum.<br /><br />\nIt would be part of another important milestone for Anita \nMagsaysay Ho: Her third solo exhibition at the PAG which \nhappened to be at its new address on Arquiza corner M.H. del \nPilar Streets in Malate.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":53000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":53000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":63684800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":1957,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/4/5/lot/26.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[],"prev":25,"next":27,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}