{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37429,"auction_id":49,"set_id":77,"lot_number":"121","artist":"Jorge Pineda (1879–1946)","title":"Estero De Bilibid","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1903 (lower right)","medium":"mixed media","size":"18 1/2” x 25” (47 cm x 64 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Jorge Pineda decisively eschews any representation of human activity in this unusual depiction of the beginnings of Bilibid, probably the prison in its original state, which speaks, surprisingly, of the notion of a meditative, peaceful camp, and not the place of detention as we know it. This surprising, even if, say, in such years as 1914, periodicals such as The Philippine Craftsman (“A Magazine Published at Manila by the Bureau of Education Devoted to the Advancement of Industrial Instruction in the Public Schools of the Philippines”) published all the kinds of industries that went on within the confines of Bilibid, such as furniture making, as part of the correctional programs for the inmates.  The August 1914 issue of the Philippine Craftsman featured the Bilibid Industrial School even mentions of a chair factory which puts out from P 4,000 to P 6,000 worth of bamboo and rattan chairs and tables every month.  Yet, as interpreted by Pineda, the rhythms of life and hard labor seem to take a standstill in this unlikely place in the turn of the century Manila. It is deeply, even eerily reflective, even introspective, despite the lack of any human presence. There is a latent energy at work here, but there is also a glimpse of the harsh realities of detention during the early American period. The colors are held to an exceptionally uniform range of dark shades.  That is why this mysteriously rugged yet elegiac picture if it is examined very clearly gives an impression of uncertainty in its precision and stillness, with movement only perceptible in the background of the painting. Mystery in a more general sense, whether of style or subject, was, as we have seen, was a quality much esteemed during the early American period. Pineda’s use of large darkened, looming volumes hint of a sense of melancholy, even latent menace, and a vague sense of decay.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35511,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/49/77/lot/121.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":120,"next":122,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}