{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33088,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"12","artist":"Vicente Alvarez Dizon (1905-1947)","title":"Landscape","starting_price":220000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1945 (lower right)","medium":"acrylic on wood","size":"22” x 47” (56 cm x 119 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance: Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of  Dalí de Púbol (1904 -1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí,  was the world famous pioneering Spanish surrealist form Figueres,  Catalunya, Spain.  Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon, was a French painter who  specialized in citiscapes.  Both participated in a major art competition in San Francisco back  in 1939, but were defeated by a Filipino, Vicente Alvarez Dizon.  Dizon carved a golden moment for Philippine art when he placed  the country at the top of the world’s biggest art competition in  1939. He won the top prize with “After the Day’s Toil” in the  Golden Gate International Exposition, which opened on Feb. 19,  1939 in San Francisco, California.  At the age of sixteen, he was already illustrating like a professional  artist even without any previous art schooling. He illustrated for  pre-war Liwayway Publications especially the stories of \"Lola  Basyang\", Graphic Herald, TVT papers and the Women's Home  Journal, while he was still in high school.  In 1929, Vicente won a scholarship from an Art School in  America (Federal Schools, a correspondence school in Minneapolis,  Minnesota). He was also busy at his easel, as if time was running  short for him, producing many historical and genre paintings.  He did research on local costumes and prepared 39 watercolor  paintings: \"Filipino Costumes, 1500-1935\". He was offered $3,000  US dollars by Lord Barnaby of the University of London (who sailed  on the same ship with him on his way to Yale University, New  Haven, Connecticut, U. S. A. for his scholarrship). He later sold  these to the UP Library in 1940 but these got burned during the  Liberation of Manila in 1945.  He also painted \"The Battle of Zapote Bridge\", \"The Battle of Tirad  Pass\", \"The Struggle\", etc. He was a pioneer in the crusade for Art  Education at all educational levels; a teacher of Drawing and Art  Appreciation at the National Teachers College (1929-41). In 1932,  he was elected executive secretary of the Philippine Association of  Fine and Applied Arts.  In 1934, Vicente again won another scholarship, this time at the  Yale University. Tall, lean with Castillan features, Vicente was a  good dresser and easily stood-out in his white de-hilo suit even in  America. While there, he tried his best in his studies. Once in a  while he would get invited to lecture on Philippine Art and Culture  and during these lecture tours around America, he always exhibited  his \"Filipino Costumes\" paintings. In 1936, during his stay in Yale, Vicente was the first Filipino to be elected  as one of the 12 members of the \"Yale Phi Alpha\", a singular honor  since only 12 members were elected each year from the more than 300  students.  It was also during his stint in Yale that he painted his famous painting  \"After the Day's Toil\".  The winning masterpiece was Dizon’s graduation thesis at Yale University  where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in June 1936.  He finished it with distinction in less than two years. In 1939, Kevin  Mallen, a representative of the International Business Machines  Corporation (IBM), went to see Vicente at their residence in A. Mabini  St., Manila. Mr. Mallen came to take a look at Vicente's painting After  the Day’s Toil.  After seeing it, Mr. Mallen right away bought it for IBM. It was framed  and shipped to the U.S.A. and included in the International Competition  on Contemporary Art of 79 Nations at the Golden Gate Exposition in San  Francisco, California. In this historic competition, his painting won First  Place by popular votation (later judged by a jury).  The entry of Spain by Salvador Dali won Second Place, and the entry  of the United States won Third Place.  After winning this prestigious award, Vicente continued to teach and  was a faculty member of the University of the Philippines School of Fine  Arts where he lectured on History of Art (1940-47) and at the UP college  of Education, where he also lectured on Art and Interior Decoration  (1946-47).  As for the painting “After the Day’s Toil”, Dr. Rogelio Pine, a Filipino  cardiologist based in New Jersey, acquired the original painting at the  invitation of the Daniel B. 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