{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38446,"auction_id":52,"set_id":80,"lot_number":"80","artist":"José Joya (1931 - 1995)","title":"Carcass","starting_price":8000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1962 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"48” x 32 1/2” (122 cm x 83 cm)","property":"Property FROM the collection of a very \ndistiguished family","coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":"Emmanuel Torres, “Because It Is There … The Philippines at the 32nd Venice Biennale: A Close Look”, Philippine Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1965); Pages 330 -349.","write_up":"In 1964, the earthshaking happened: In response to the lobbying  of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma, the doyenne of Philippine Art and the  Art Association of the Philippines, the Venice Biennale had  invited the Philippines to participate for the very first time.\nThis was the modern-day equivalent of being accepted into the 19th-century Paris Salon, where the who’s who, the newest, the brightest, and the best from the civilized world would exhibit and compete.\nEmmanuel Torres was pressed into service as the head of the  delegation and he decided that the two representatives were to be Jose Joya (for painting) and Napoleon Abueva (for sculpture.)\nJoya, at the time, was also president of the Art Association of the Philippines; and happened to be in the spotlight with a 3-year  retrospective (1961 to 1964) at the Philamlife building on U.N.  Avenue, which was then one of the major centers for the culture and the arts.  He asked the commission to have their pick of the works on show.  They had originally selected 14 but when told about the size of the  allocated space for the Philippines, the  number was culled to nine.  (The selection committee was  composed of members of the Department of the Foreign Affairs, the Art Association of the Philippines and the Filipino members  of the Association Internationale des Critiques D’art.)\n“Carcass” is one of the nine Joya paintings that were on view  at this historic Biennale.\nTwo others are in repose at institutions : “Granadean Arabesque” at the Ateneo Art Gallery and “Hills of Nikko” at the National  Gallery of Singapore, on loan from the Philippine National Museum.\nJose Joya, circa 1973. From the Asian Cultural Council files.\nAt the Biennale, the Philippines was in the “Central Pavilion”, in a room with a skylight, alongside the countries of Argentina, Bolivia and other South American countries.  “The greater proportion of rooms in the Pavilion were a large special show called “Art of Today in the Museum”  … and featured works by Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto  Giacometti, Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Antonio Tapies” among others.\nEmmanuel Torres reported that there were 3,300 entries by some 500 artists.  Only two Asian countries — Japan and the Philippines — were represented.\nHe remarked that Joya’s entries were “clean, classic”, and “had added something vital from his  own personality to the International Abstract Style.” He said that “all nine paintings are consistently high in quality, and showed the Venetian cognoscenti the variety of content and the  expressive range of Joya’s visual language, from the cool, grassy lushness of “Hills of Nikko”, to the steady glare of “Granadean Arabesque”,  from the quiet lyrical outburst of “Venetian Daybreak” to the  palette-knife fury of his red “Carcass.”\n-Lisa Guerrero Nakpil","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>José Joya </strong> (1931 - 1995)<br /><em>Carcass</em><br />signed and dated 1962 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />48&rdquo; x 32 1/2&rdquo; (122 cm x 83 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":17000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":17000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":19856000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":36704,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/52/80/lot/80.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":79,"next":81,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}