{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38644,"auction_id":53,"set_id":81,"lot_number":"104","artist":"Lee Aguinaldo  (1933-2007)","title":"Explosion #199","starting_price":1200000,"signed_dated":"dated 1958","medium":"Oil On Canvas","size":"36” x 60” (91 cm x 152 cm)","property":"Property Formerly in the Lyd arguilla collection","coa":null,"provenance":"Philippine Art Gallery (PAG)","exhibited":"Philippine Art Gallery (PAG), Third Solo Exhibition (exhibition of abstract  expressionist works influenced by Jackson Pollock and Georges Mathieu),  Manila, 1959 Cultural Center of the Philippines (CPP), A Tribute to Lyd Arguilla: The Fifties Exhibition, Main Gallery, January 22 - February 28, 1971","literature":"Documentation of Exhibitions, CCP Art Museum, Vol. 1, 1971","write_up":"During his stay in New York as a young boy, Lee Aguinaldo frequented the Metropolitan Museum, where he was exposed to the works of Titian, Rembrandt and other masters. As for the modern American painters of that era, like Pollock and De Kooning, Lee  Aguinaldo told art critic Cid Reyes in 1972: “Oh, they were still very much an underground group, and I was ignorant of their existence.” \nLee Aguinaldo held his first exhibit at the Philippine Art Gallery in 1958.  His early works were influenced by Jackson Pollock. \nReyes: “How long were you doing these Pollock influenced paintings?” \n“For about three years, I think.” \nThe School of Paris was replaced with the New York School of gestural painting, followed by post painterly and chromatic abstraction.  Pollock's most famous action paintings were made during the \"drip period\" between 1947 and 1950, and Lee Aguinaldo’s painting continued to evolve with new ideas and  corresponding shifts in his sensibility. \nThe idea behind Action painting was not meant to portray subjects per se but to touch the viewer deep in the subconscious, evoking a sense of the primal and tapping the sense of a basic visual language \"unconsciously,\" and spontaneously, creating a powerful outburst  of raw emotion and action in a particular moment.  Created by adding pools, drips and splatters of color to wet bands of paint, these works re-asserted the artist's interest in color.  His concern has always been to create painterly accidents of the kind that allow buried personal meanings to take on visibility. \nHis oil painting technique allowed him to paint thick layers, producing peaks and troughs as copious amounts of paint were applied to the surface of the canvas. \nIn this painting, the new style reached a pitch of frenzied energy, almost chaotic in its  intensity.  The bold and summary brushwork blurs the particular while sweeping everything up in its surging rhythms.  Its universal turbulence blends earth and sky as on the day of creation. \nThe fact that Lee Aguinaldo is considered a midcentury pillar of modernism today is a far cry from his startup years as an artist. \nCid Reyes asked Aguinaldo: “What was the public’s response of your first show?” \nAguinaldo replied: “Not very favorable. It was dismissed as chicken scribbling.”","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Lee Aguinaldo</strong> (1933-2007)<br /><em>Explosion # 199</em><br />1958<br />oil on canvas<br />36&rdquo; x 60&rdquo; (91 cm x 152 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":2400000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2400000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2803200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":36933,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/53/81/lot/104.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":103,"next":105,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}