{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33187,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"108","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931-2005)","title":"Crucifixion","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1969 (upper right)","medium":"oil on wood","size":"14 1/4” x 13” (36 cm x 33 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"DIVINE ANGUISH BENEATH THE BRILLIANT SURFACE OF  EXPRESSIONISM  For painter Ang Kiukok, the violence he has witnessed and  experienced in life has been a profound motivation in his work.  Ang Kiukok’s violence is not something gratuitous, but it is both  an inspiration for his art and a source of strength.  No sooner than when Ang Kiukok, along with Vicente  Manansala, returned from the United States in 1965, he had  turned out pictures notable for their agitated brushwork and  shrieking color — a kind of nervous breakdown in pigment.  One can never insist enough on the importance of his trip to the  United States, which led him to rediscover a strong link with reality,  a direct feeling for disillusion, a tearing off of a veil that one fed him  with illusions of intellectual speculation and worldly politeness.  In his maturity, Ang Kiukok’s essential subject became even more  the violence of the elements, above all of the forces that both  create and destroy.  A pupil of Victorio Edades and Vicente Manansala, Ang Kiukok  emerged as an accomplished painter in the 1960s, pursuing the  theme of mechanization of human beings and in the crucifixion  of Christ in many of his works. In this work, Christ is a duality  of a tortured victim and alienated android. The figure’s upward  bent head and the tension emoted by the renditions of the  shoulder downwards signify the human cum divine angst in Christ’s  approaching death. While Western cubism is all about the objective analysis of physicality,  Ang Kiukok borrows its approach and techniques to pursue the  opposite, i.e. to synthesize what has been broken down into unified  interpretation of the son of God’s agony. To him, agony is an  uncompromising universal experience, both of the human and the  Divine.  Keeping his guard against the pretty has been reinforced by a gift from  a friend: a book on Francis Bacon with color plates of that Surrealist  Englishman’s hallucinatory landscapes and lonely people disintegrating  and contorting in ghoulish torment. Likewise, the fruits of Ang’s easel  were metamorphosing in a variety of odd ways, although by Bacon’s  standards Ang’s anguished shapes are glowing with health and hope.  With all profundity and mystery, it is one of the more poetical and  sublime pictures of Christ as depicted by Ang Kiukok. One of the most  purely poetical pictures of divine suffering he produced. Although Ang  Kiukok reduces his images into basic planes and shapes to bring out  only the most elemental forms, his works nevertheless ably achieves  emotional power within the context of a contemporary art idiom.  Ang Kiukok’s depiction of the suffering Christ took a tortuous  evolution all its own. In a June 1974 article, Eric Torres wrote:  “A more notable transmutation occurs in the large Crucifixions.  No longer the serene, static crucified Christs of the fifties and sixties,  these later ones write with Grunewaldian anguish.”","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1400000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1400000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1635200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31148,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/108.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":107,"next":109,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}