{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33208,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"126","artist":"Fernando Zobel (1924-1984)","title":"La Piedra IV","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right and verso) dated 1980","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"32” x 39” (80 cm x 100 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  Private Collection, Makati City","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"No matter how much they were admired, the introspective  abstractions by artists such as Jose Joya remain difficult; making  enormous demands on their audience during the mid-century even  up to today. Not quite with the art of Fernando Zobel.  The aesthetic of Zobel evolves out of the minimal aesthetic,  in which all illusions and subjective lyrical elements are eliminated  in favor of the functional purity of abstract form and color.  The simplicity of the painting enables it to be a single gestalt that  immediately calms the viewer and at the same time is instantly  relatable.  Zobel manages to impose the lucid, reductive style of his  abstract art so that the artist’s identity is at once proclaimed.  Such casual but exquisitely precise hints of line tells us how he  keeps sharpening his vision, transforming the mess that is seen  in the world into something whose unshaded clarity of edge and  shape can hover with the same weightless purity as one of his  painted saetas of an earlier era in the artist’s career.  The reality behind the art of Fernando Zobel is a subtle simplicity  that suggests the influences of a complex intellectual training which  in turn results in a work that creates an astonishing sense of calm  in the viewer by way of hinted color, tone, and value. Zobel also says: “the actual painting is the final and clearest realization  of the idea”. And the idea is to distill the experience of viewing art and  present them through the sieve of one’s own sensibility.  The paradox in Zobel’s art is that his complex theories have produced  paintings of an apparently elementary simplicity. Reductive abstraction  is the foundation of Zobel’s aesthetics. It is what he has settled into over  the years, after the baroque colorisms of the 1950s and the black and  white series of the early 1960s.  Pared down to basics, Zobel produced images that anticipated  Minimalism and Zen yet still bearing a quiet resilience and vitality.  In style, it falls between the visual sparseness of minimalism and the  intellectual demands of abstraction. Painted subject and real subject  identify with each other in abstract synthesis.  Out of Zobel’s simplification would come a renewal, and this “faith” had  a persuasive appeal in the development of abstraction in the Philippines.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":6000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":6000000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":7008000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31164,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/126.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":125,"next":127,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}