{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37451,"auction_id":49,"set_id":77,"lot_number":"141","artist":"Vicente Manansala (1910-1981)","title":"Woman Sewing","starting_price":8000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1980 (upper right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"34” x 27” (86 cm x 69 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":"Literature:  Nazareno, Isabel, Discovering Manansala, Friends  of Manansala Foundation, Inc., Manila, 2005, p. 89  (illustrated, fig. 102)","write_up":"This is one of Manansala’s more sophisticated imagery, full of complex spatial and visual play as well as verbal wit. Only a few paintings ascribe their real or imagined virtues to the theme that is depicted. Is she a typical seamstress, or is she Marcela Mariño Agoncillo (Mariño y Coronel; June 24, 1859 – May 30, 1946), a renowned Filipina in Philippine history, also known as the principal woman who wove the first and official flag of the Philippines, gaining her the title of \"The Mother of the Philippine Flag\". Manansala resorts to the traditional device of using an iconic moment in history to identify the subject. Manansala holds on to the whole image of a woman weaving, selectively distorting, making complexities out of its structure, but never willfully shattering the image beyond recognition. The artist seems to be deliberately combining the ephemeral, as symbolized by the fabric with stars, with the external, as represented by the geometry that structures the work. The bright colors and dynamism of the composition suggest the life and vitality of the scene. The more radical the reduction, and the farther away the subject matter are from being recognizable (to the point where it becomes a diagram or a blot), the more abstract the work is said to be. But no matter how banal, broken up, or complex, reminders of historic subject matter are still there somehow.  Some painters believe that there is such a fundamental contradiction between painting abstractly from real objects (no matter how abstracted) than if a painting is going to be abstract at all it should be totally so, with no connection whatsoever with the world of visible reality. Manansala belongs to the first school of thought.  A key figure among Filipino modernists, Manansala took the cubist treatment of forms further, constructing pictures by breaking down the subjects into tell tale components, to depict each element with its most characteristic fragment.  This work learns from the older school synthetic Cubist method of making abstract elements signify objects through positioning and the addition of details. There are too many stars in the fabric, but that only adds to the charming duality of this work.  Whether or not she is a typical seamstress, or is she Marcela Mariño Agoncillo, it is under the name of all important name of Vicente Manansala wherein both things seen and things imagined are perceived in this picture.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35539,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/49/77/lot/141.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":140,"next":142,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}