{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38639,"auction_id":53,"set_id":81,"lot_number":"100","artist":"Romulo Galicano (b.1945)","title":"Claude Monet's Flower Garden at Giverny","starting_price":360000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1981 (lower right)","medium":"Oil On Canvas","size":"35” x 45” (89 cm x 114 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Makati City","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"One can only imagine the zeitgeist of Belle Epoque France, which Romulo Galicano recaptures in what seems to be a quiet corner in Giverny, where a young woman in a Second Empire era dress stops and smells the flowers. The French nostalgia for the Belle Époque period was based largely on the attitude on living for life that was associated with the period. Two devastating episodes, the Franco Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and their aftermath made the Belle Époque appear to be a time of joie de vivre. \nThose in the French countryside who were able to benefit from the prosperity of the era were drawn towards new forms of light entertainment during the Belle Époque, and the Parisian bourgeoisie, or the successful industrialists called nouveau riches, became increasingly influenced by the trends of the city's elite, known popularly as Tout Paris ("all of Paris", or "everyone in Paris"). \nThe woman wears a white dress that would be no different from those that appear in Toulouse-Lautrec's posters from the era. \nWhile Hausmann’s French Second Empire renovation of Paris changed its housing, street layouts, and green spaces, the walkable neighborhoods in all of the French towns such as Giverny were well-established by the Belle Époque. \nEven in fashion, a fin de siecle style trend favored small breasts (a large bosom may still be acceptable in the provinces, but not in Paris!) so the woman in white is very much updated. \nThe word "ritzy" was coined during this era, referring to the posh atmosphere and clientele of the Hotel Ritz in Paris. \nIn Belle Epoque France, Monet was at the peak of his powers, even if Impressionism was still considered the artistic avant-garde in the late 19th century, and would not gain widespread acceptance until after World War I. The official art school in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, held an exhibition of Japanese printmaking which was to influence the other colleagues of Monet such as Degas, yet the academic painting style, associated with the Academy of Art in Paris, remained the most respected style among the public in Paris. Thus, reactions against the ideals of the Impressionists also characterized visual arts in Paris during the Belle Époque. Yet Monet filled his little corner of the 19th century world with gardens and a literal abundance of flowers. \nMuch can be said about Galicano’s propensity for old France. As early as 1963, he showed evidence of precocity in portraiture, with Juan Luna (who himself stayed in Paris) as one of his early influences.\nIt is documented that from 1969 to 1975, Romulo Galicano had an impressionist period with Martino Abellana’s influence predominating. In a 1978 magazine article entitled “The View on the Plateau”, Angel de Jesus stridently wrote with a critical eye;\n“What may be considered as a major genuflect in the general direction of conventional representational art is…Romulo Galicano…Galicano’s [works] tend to puzzle those familiar with his earlier paintings. Somehow a European atmosphere has crept into them which is totally at odds with the Philippine setting. He should abandon the tendency to become a French Impressionist painter if he aspires to qualify as a major Filipino painter.”\nYet Galicano held his own and became one of the country’s major Filipino painters — and his numerous collectors could easily attest to his popularity.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"

Romulo Galicano (b.1945)
Claude Monet’s Flower Garden at Giverny
signed and dated 1981 (lower right)
oil on canvas
35” x 45” (89 cm x 114 cm)

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