{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":32963,"auction_id":40,"set_id":65,"lot_number":"50","artist":"Vicente Manansala (1910 - 1981)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":10000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1978 (upper right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"37”x 25” (94 cm x 64 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Vicente Manansala's mother and child themes started with his \nprize-winning Madonna of the Slums from 1950, which is a portrayal \nof a mother and child from the countryside who became urban shanty \nresidents once in the city. \nThis Mother and Child from 1978 is expressive of the feelings of love \nand lightness. The image is of a keen and loving mother whom \nembraces her child wholeheartedly.\nManansala was the second pillar of the Philippine ‘Neo-Realism’ ( the \nother two being Cesar Legaspi and H.R Ocampo).\nVicente Manansala graduated from the UP School of Fine Arts in 1930 \nand went on to further training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal \nas well as in Paris , thanks to the UNESCO grant, that brought him face \nto face with Fernand Leger, who was a teacher in the Sorbonne and later \nformed his own Academie.\nLeger’s views on “the human figure as plastic value, not as a \nsentimental value” had a particular resonance for the Neo-Realists \nwho used the term “plastic reality”; so did his practice of cubism \n(or “fracturing’ objects into geometric shapes while depicting the \nillusion of three-dimensionality.”)\nAs perfectly narrated by Rodolfo Paras-Perez: “Cubism then became \nthe generating force of Manansala's mature works, the stylistic center \nof his main oeuvres. It was not a master-follower relationship — it was \nmore like extending the premises of a tradition. Cubism did not curtail \nthe dimension of Manansala's vision. He enriched the style and gave it a \nnew context. Above all, he gave it a new sense of place.\"","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":12000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":12000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":14016000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":30923,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/40/65/lot/50.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":49,"next":51,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}