{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33186,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"106","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972)","title":"Pasay","starting_price":2200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1932 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"11”x 18” (28 cm x 46 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  My husband, Nathaniel Bercovitz, two-","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"We were housed on the campus of Silliman University and  our neighbor across the street from us was Frances Rodgers.  Her parents, Dr. James B and Mrs. Anna Rodgers had come  to Manila in April 1894 (when Frances was 6 years old) as  the first Presbyterian Missionaries to the Philippines. When  we arrived, Frances was head of the Home Economics  Department in the College of Liberal Arts of Silliman  University. She had started Domestic Science classes there  in 1917 which went on to become a full department in  1920. In 1930 it became the Home Economics Department  and in 1986 a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics was  included.  Frances and I quickly became good friends. After all,  I had taught Home Economics for one year at  a Presbyterian Mission in Kentucky.  I had admited the paintings of Philippine scenes which  were hanging in her home. There was a large one of local  scenes and with Frances’ help, as well as a canvas from a  California friend, a local artist agreed to paint a picture for  me, even agreeing to move the mountain I could see from  my kitchen window so it would overlook the river where  women did their laundering!  Frances had several very nice paintings, but my favorite was  one by Fernando Amorsolo, a lovely pastoral scene of every  day life. It was one which made me want to slow down,  breath deeply, and enjoy. To perhaps enjoy joining the  woman walking in the light next to the water.  After Frances’ death in 1983, I received my Fernando Amorsolo  painting from those who closed the estate. She had told me  that she wanted me to have it because of how much I enjoyed  it. I had no idea as to its value and I doubt she did either.  I have thought of it as a gift of love from a dear friend. Now  in my late 90s, and with poor eyesight, I am parting with it and  hoping the person who comes in possession of it finds the same  joy as I have had for so many years.  Miss Frances V. Rodgers, honored in 2018:  Eleven names of long-serving faculty and staff of Silliman  University who have passed on were unvelied in a solemn  ceremony on August 23, 2018 at Silliman Hall. Their names  are etched in plates and will be added to the Heritage Builders  Wall on the southern lawn.  Frances Van V. Rodgers, Founder, Home Economics Department  (and Head for 40 years) was one of the eleven so honored.  She hasn’t been forgotten.  Mary M. Bercovitz, April 26, 2019  Amorsolo was one of the first Filipino artists to portray peasants at  leisure in art, and many of his scenes crowded along the shore among  a scattering of parasols. Often he organized his compositions in such a  way that the emphasis was more on the sky than on the people beneath,  in which he made numerous studies.  His mastery of space and light — the handling especially of emptiness  whether at ground level or in the sky — was matched by a delicate  mastery of detail and is further enlivened by a charming quasi anecdotal  delight in the presentation of groups and figures.  The light of the seaside freed Amorsolo’s palette and intensified the vigor  of his paint handling. Like his landscapes, the seascapes were completed  on the spot during his sojourns. They could belong to a group all their  own.  By carefully positioning his figures on and around the beach, Amorsolo  has created a peaceful and rhythmical composition. At its best,  Amorsolo’s art is a paradigm of the realist’s earthy paradise — a society  in which people go about their simple lives contented and in a responsive  idyllic environment.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":3200000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":3200000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3737600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31149,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/106.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":105,"next":107,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}