{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37241,"auction_id":48,"set_id":76,"lot_number":"112","artist":"Juvenal Sansó (1929 - 2025)","title":"Meditations","starting_price":400000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)","medium":"acrylic on canvas","size":"19” x 28” (48 cm x 71 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"On the heels of his triumphant homecoming from his studies in Paris, Juvenal Sanso embarked on his most enduring Brittany series drawn from his travels in France were his drawings and etchings of the flora and fauna of the picturesque French sea-side town. This work titled Meditation done in yellow ochres and stark black strokes are carefully painted to depict the sandy coves of its picturesque coastline at sunset which the artist used as a place of solace from the political upheavals that were shaping metropolitan France in the aftermath of the death of the charismatic President Charles de Gaulle in 1970. As a master of the dry brush technique, Sanso composed his scenic landscapes with the gravitational emotion that are a tribute to the latter works of the Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) whose expressionist and impulsive artworks were to the personal liking of Sanso for its vivid brushwork that he aimed to emulate.   As with the case of Van Gogh and his beloved Auvers-sur-Oise, Brittany is synonymous to Sanso for it brought out the best of his tantalizing floral works having stayed there significantly, through the care and support of his friend Yves le Dantec, a son-in-law of the French fauvist painter Georges Rouault (1871-1958) in their seaside residence. Sanso explained to the late art historian Rod. Paras-Perez (1930-2011) that were published in Sanso: Art Quest Between Two Worlds (Eugenio Lopez Foundation, 1988) on how Brittany came into being his refuge in his life and in his art: “For over twenty-two years, I would go to their house [the Dantec family] on the Coast, and they helped me ever so gently but efficiently, to feel and understand a world so differently from my visual past. It took me about two years of just staring at the sea and the changing tides and the rose granite rocks. I simply could not paint. I had to digest it first and filter it. If the friendship had faltered then or simply ceased, I would not have developed an inner path. This landscape [Brittany] was so beautiful that I must have felt I did not deserve it. I had no language to express it.”","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":650000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":650000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":759200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35272,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/48/76/lot/112.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":111,"next":113,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}