{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1950,"auction_id":4,"set_id":5,"lot_number":"47","artist":"Teodoro Buenaventura Sr. (1863 - 1950)","title":"Street Scene","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)<br /> dated 1937","medium":"oil on wood","size":"9 1/2\" x 12 1/2\" (24 cm x 32 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":"\nAraneta, Antonio S., ed., 1030 R. Hidalgo: Volume II, Legacy in Art. Manila: Mara, Inc., 1986.\nFull-color photograph and painting description on page 75.<br /><br />\n\nDuldulao, Manuel D. The Philippine Art Scene. Manila: Maber Books, Inc., 1977.\nFull color photograph on page 243; Catalogued in the caption on page 244.","write_up":"Teodoro Buenaventura's Street Scene is among \nthe few surviving works by one of the country's \nundisputed masters of genre painting; many of his \nmajor works unfortunately perished during World War II.<br /><br /> \nStreet Scene hung prominently in the Main Reception \nRoom of Don J. Antonio Araneta's magnificent Forbes \nPark abode, along with artworks by other revered artists, \nsuch as early works by Vicente Rivera y Mir, Amorsolo, \nSanso, and even a pen and ink wash by the esteemed \nItalian master Caravaggio. Luna's Sorprendidos (ca. \n1887) from his Venetian honeymoon with Paz Pardo de \nTavera and Buenaventura's own A Countryside Dawn\n(1938) also graced the room's walls. Both were auctioned \nat León Gallery in 2021 and 2022, respectively. All these \nworks had once greeted Don J. Antonio's distinguished \nguests, such as US President Richard Nixon. <br /><br />\nBuenaventura first immersed himself in art in childhood, \ndrawing pen and ink landscapes of his native Bulacan. He \nbecame fatherless at 14, so he convinced his mother to \nallow him to migrate to Manila for job opportunities. When \nhe landed a job in the capital, Buenaventura continued \nhis passion for the arts. This sustained pursuit eventually \nled him to be discovered by the mother of Ramon Salas, \nhis employer, who sent him to the Escuela Superior de \nPintura, Escultura, y Grabado, the same institution that \nhoned Luna and Hidalgo.<br /><br /> \nBuenaventura would eventually become a prolific and \nwell-decorated artist. He competed in the Exposition \nRegional de Filipinas, instituted by Governor-General \nRamon Blanco as the first Exposition in the archipelago \nto promote trade and commerce. It was held in Manila \nfrom January 23 to July 19, 1895. Buenaventura would \nwin a bronze medal for Después del Baño (After the \nBath), one of the three oil paintings he entered in the \ncompetition. Buenaventura would also win a silver medal \nfor his work Ya Vienen (They Are Coming) at an exhibition \nsponsored by the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas in \n1908, besting Fabian de la Rosa, who was, at the time, \nalready a big name in Philippine art.<br /><br /> \nIn 1899, Buenaventura opened his portrait shop in San \nJose, Trozo, in present-day Santa Cruz, Manila. Numerous \ncommissions for portraits and landscapes flocked to \nhim for his excellence in classical realism. He would also \nestablish in his home his own school, the Academia de \nDibujo, which counted among its students Serafin Serna, \nTomas Bernardo, and Mauro Malang Santos. The now \nrevered Malang had his first serious art training under \nBuenaventura, his private tutor when he was only 11 \nyears old. <br /><br />\nBuenaventura was a founding teacher of the University \nof the Philippines School of Fine Arts, serving for almost \nthree decades, from 1909 to 1935. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":300000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":300000,"userBid":11886,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":360480,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":1980,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/4/5/lot/47.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":46,"next":48,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}