{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37444,"auction_id":49,"set_id":77,"lot_number":"135","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972)","title":"Ynchausti Rope Factory (Later the Old Elizalde  Building)","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1926 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"28” x 42” (71 cm x 107 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Leon Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo  for confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":"Literature:  Elizalde Model Employer, Published by Employees and  Workers of Elizalde & Co., Inc., Manila, Philippines, 1936,  p.13 (illustrated)","write_up":"The cover of the official brochure of the Philippine Exposition — World’s Fair St. Louis 1904 states: 40 Different Tribes; 6 Philippine Villages; 70,000 Exhibits, 130 Buildings; 725 Native Soldiers” and it adds: “Better than a Trip Through the Philippine Islands.”  One of those 70,000 exhibits featured Ynchausti Rope Factory, and a 1904 Manila Times advertisement states: “The only Grand Prize for Manila Rope at St. Louis exposition has been awarded to Ynchausti & Company’s Balut Rope Factory.”  In the 1920s, American businesses were raising up a growing entrepreneurial class which offered serious competition to the old Spanish and Chinese mestizo elites: For example, several well known American firms were established in 1921 alone: The Texas Co. (later Caltex), the Lyric Music House, Edward J Nell and the Kneedler Realty Co.  Yet the Filipino business families, whether belonging to the old Spanish and Chinese mestizo elites, such as the Ynchausti Rope Factory, simply continued in the task of contributing to the national economic development.  A February 1923 advertisement of the company stated: ”Only the finest of the Abaca enters into the composition of Inchausti Rope. Comparative test will show this but only the initiated could tell the high quality of a rope product by looking at it. We invite scientific tests of our products, believing that quality will win in the long run.   19th century construction plans in the the National Archives in Manila have the fachadas of the Ynchausti houses at Ermita and Malate. The Ynchaustis, just like the Aranetas were of Basque descent, with both families coming from the same place called Gipuzkoa. Time was when patriarch Manuel de Ynchausti travelled extensively and lived in Donostia, Paris, and Ustaritze; thus the family's business interests were handled by Salvador Z. Araneta, a lawyer and close friend of Manuel de Ynchausti. Monumental expressiveness is the moving quality in Amorsolo’s painting of the Ynchausti Rope Factory. The viewers who are fully appreciative of architecture as art will take almost as a matter of course the charm of the vast building, the bits of landscape, the elaborately beautiful foliage, the almost ornamental details which are the things moving about at the street, all of which would distinguish this streetscape even in a gallery of European paintings.  Amorsolo’s articulation of architectural details in a vast industrial landmark in prewar Manila allows for compositional solutions worked out in terms of the most varied rhythms. Charming street details such as the huge rolls of abaca on the streetscape add a strong sense of authenticity to the scene. The sprawling edifice is later to be renamed as the Old Elizalde building.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":5000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":5000000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":5840000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35531,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/49/77/lot/135.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":134,"next":136,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}