{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37020,"auction_id":47,"set_id":75,"lot_number":"54","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972)","title":"a.) Portrait of a Man  b.) Portrait of a Woman","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1914 (lower right)","medium":"oil on paper","size":"5 1/2”x 3 1/4” (14 cm x 8 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, USA","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Dated 1914, these are perhaps the earliest-known Amorsolo  paintings to be discovered and brought to auction. Certainly,  they are seminal works of the master’s career as one of the  country’s most famous portraitists, successor to his fabled uncle  Fabian de la Rosa. The older painter had become one of the most  sought-after portrait-painters for Manila’s rich and famous and  soon, Amorsolo would eclipse him.  Writing on Amorsolo and this pair of portraits, iconic scholar Ramon  N. Villegas on January 3, 2013, said, “Amorsolo was born in 1892,  so in 1914, he was only 22 years old. His patron — Don Enrique  Zobel de Ayala — gave him a grant to travel to Europe in 1919.”  In 1914, Amorsolo had some fame, having won a silver medal at  the important competition the ‘Exposicion Internacional de Bellas  Artes” organized by the Asociacion Internacional de Artistas in  1908 for the work ‘Leyendo Periodico.’ He had also just finished his  studies in Painting at the University of the Philippines School of Fine  Arts and had been hired by the school as a drawing instructor.  Villegas continues, “I don't think the gentleman in the first portrait  is a Spaniard, but he is mestizo, or a Filipino with Spanish blood.  The woman looks like she also has Chinese blood together with  some Spanish. Both portraits seem to have been painted from  photographs, particularly because of the rather forthright gaze of  the young woman    “The fellow's portrait has an \"antique\" feel; an almost-1890s’ look to it,  based on the man's European suit and his handlebar moustache. The  lady's portrait, on the other hand, has a 1914 look. She is wearing a  Filipina dress of that period. So you must consider the possibility that  they are father and daughter, with the gentleman’s portrait based on  an older photograph.  “The earliest extant photograph of Manila scenes are dated 1845 (from  the Hispanic Society of America, in New York). There were commercial  photography studios from the 1860s and the wealthy commonly had  photographic portraits taken by the 1880s, and copied in oil by painters.  By the 1890s, photographic portraits were touched up with colors,  which the middle class could afford. But the wealthy always had their  photos copied in oil.”  All in all, the portraits capture a bygone elegant era of Manila’s refined  past: Father is sternly formal in his white collar and dark jacket; his  daughter wears a stiffened panel (fichu) with a faintly floral pattern in  leaf green. The glint of a gold peineta (comb) in the young womans’  hair and the cross on a necklace around her throat reflect a comfortably  wealthy social status.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972)</strong><br />a.) <em>Portrait of a Man</em><br />signed and dated 1914 (lower right)<br />oil on paper<br />5 1/2&rdquo;x 3 1/4&rdquo; (14 cm x 8 cm)<br /><br />b.)<em> Portrait of a Woman</em><br />signed and dated 1914 (lower right)<br />oil on paper<br />5 1/2&rdquo;x 3 1/4&rdquo; (14 cm x 8 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":1600000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1600000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1868800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35038,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/47/75/lot/54.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":35042,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/47/75/lot/54b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":35041,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/47/75/lot/54a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"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":53,"next":55,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}