{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38606,"auction_id":53,"set_id":81,"lot_number":"69","artist":"Juan Luna  (1857-1899)","title":"a.) Scenes of Everyday life in  Japan\nb.) Scenes of Everyday life in  Japan","starting_price":3800000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"Oil On Wood","size":"12 1/2” x 18” (32 cm x 46 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Claude Aguttes SAS (Hotel Drouot, Paris), France, June 10, 2015, Lot 70","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Just like Felix Resureccion Hidalgo painted Bois de Boulogne (Lopez Museum Collection), these two works bring out the park landscapist in Juan Luna who had an eye for the more hidden views of verdant subjects in the cities he visited, such as Street Flower Vendors (also in the Lopez  Museum Collection).. \nThese paintings display all the significant, post 1890 Salon era changes in Luna’s late works, a relatively long two decades after studying at the conservatively academic Escuela de Pintura at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.  There is a brushstroke induced earthiness about them, especially in the foreground areas, which Luna achieved by a rougher handling of the paint.  Both paintings show the great freedom with which Luna was handling paint during his final years. \nThese are scenes in everyday life in Japan.  The Gates and shrine on the leftmost painting and the facade of the building on the rightmost painting indicate that these were scenes Luna painted while he was in Japan with his son Andres and his pupil Gaston O'Farell in 1896 which was around the same time of The Cry of Balitawak. \nThe breadth of Luna’s execution somewhat obscures the detailed landmarks in order to contribute to the painting’s quiet energy.  Yet those  architectural or natural details create a convincing illusion of spatial depth and luminously atmospheric distance. \nThe stone steps are heavy in their chromatic weightlessness, somber in their brilliance.  Spacious in its interpenetrating spaces.  Even though the colors in both paintings are tonally very close, in Luna’s masterful hands their combined effects bring an unexpected intensity into what might have been a lifeless stretch of ochre. \nJuan Luna traveled back to the Philippines in December 1899 upon hearing of the murder of his brother Antonio by the Kawit Battalion  in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.  Luna traveled to Hong Kong and died there on December 7, 1899 from a fatal heart attack.  His remains were buried in Hong Kong, and in 1920 were exhumed and kept in Andrés Luna's house, to be later transferred to a niche at the Crypt of the church of San Agustin in the Philippines.  Five years later, Luna would be reinstated as a world-renowned painter and Peuple et Rois.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Juan Luna</strong> (1857-1899)<br /><em>a.) Scenes of Everyday Life in Japan</em><br />oil on wood<br />12 1/2&rdquo; x 18&rdquo; (32 cm x 46 cm)<br /><br /><em>b.) Scenes of Everyday Life in Japan</em><br />signed (lower right)<br />oil on wood<br />12 1/2&rdquo; x 18&rdquo; (32 cm x 46 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":36884,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/53/81/lot/69.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":36889,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/53/81/lot/69c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":36887,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/53/81/lot/69b.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"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":68,"next":70,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}