{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38626,"auction_id":53,"set_id":81,"lot_number":"87","artist":"Lao Lianben  (b.1948)","title":"Under the Influence of Moonlight","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1979 (lower left)","medium":"Acrylic On Marine Board","size":"52” x 48” (132 cm x 122 cm)","property":"Property From the Dean Leovino Ma. Garcia Collection","coa":null,"provenance":"Galleria Duemila","exhibited":null,"literature":"Passion &amp; Compassion: A Collector's View, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, 2007, p. 56","write_up":"Lao Lianben’s painting, “Under the Influence of the Moon,” paradoxically strives to make us sense the invisible in the visible.  For the invisible becomes visible to those who pause to see, listen, reflect, imagine, and wonder that the ordinary is truly extraordinary.  Perhaps, this is the quiet power of a Lao painting.  After a stressful day, you can be soothed by letting “yourself be rocked by your gaze as it moves from detail to detail,” to use the words of the famous Swiss collector Jean Planque.  In this Lao painting, there is much to meditate on what is essential in life.  There  is a lot of heart in Lao.  But there is also a lot of intelligence, much wisdom which comes from respecting the rhythm of things, persons, and  situations.  Lao’s compassionate wisdom connects to the heart of the matter.\nAn amazing effortless grace inhabits Lao’s paintings, brought about by nothing less than hard work, zealous dedication, and the patient  accumulation of infinitesimal amounts.  Yet before this accumulation becomes too serious (doesn’t G.K. Chesterton remind us that “life  is too serious to be taken too seriously”?), it turns into creative repetition, much like child play.  But this time with a difference, for this child  play culminates in a reflective spontaneity, a second naiveté.  With this second naiveté, one is gifted with a veritable feast for thought.\nLao’s “Under the Influence of the Moon” intimates that raw, primitive elegance and sophistication which are at the source of the business and mystery of being human.  As long as one lives, that will have to be left undefined and continually explored.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Lao Lianben</strong> (b.1948)<br /><em>Under the Influence of Moonlight</em><br />signed and dated 1979 (lower left) <br />acrylic on marine board<br />52&rdquo; x 48&rdquo; (132 cm x 122 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":4800000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":4800000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":5606400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":36909,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/53/81/lot/87.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":86,"next":88,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}