{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38828,"auction_id":54,"set_id":82,"lot_number":"109","artist":"Benedicto Cabrera (b. 1942)","title":"Nine figure studies (Sabel)","starting_price":2200000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"mixed media","size":"23” x 24” (61 cm x 61 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired in London in the 1970's; Private Collection, UK; Sotheby's, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Hongkong, 5 April 2015, Lot 299; Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The book BENCAB by Krip Yison and Cid Reyes says: “In the 1970s, with the onslaught of minimalism, the figure of Sabel resurfaced  as a sleek, shape-specific form, recast in space with the fluidity  of the human body. Bencab sent the Sabel image on a spin  of varying idioms, riveted in turns on a planar, geometric structure and a general, painterly surface.” The psychedelia of the late 60s  zeitgeist resulted in ‘The Bold Look’ that was the aesthetic of pop  culture in the year 1970.  “The viewer immediately senses the  intrusion of the artist’s presence in visual devices that control  or motivate the spatial complexity of each painting. There are  characteristic grid-like divisions of space, the geometric blocking  of areas of darkness, the streamlined bands of muted colors that seem to cut into the figures’ psychic space and the asymmetrical deployment of the bodies that startle the composition.”  \nThis ca. 1970 work of nine figure studies of Sabel is a recurring  theme all throughout the artist's career but here he was delving  on angles, poses with the artist's perception of his muse.  The book BENCAB says about this short, but unusual period: “It seemed  the Sabel image could not be transfixed on a permanent pictorial setting.” Bencab simply made manifest even in ‘The Bold Look’  era what he was to tell Cid Reyes in 1978: “In so many paintings  I did of her (Sabel), she was…a “device”, as it were, on which  I could anchor a composition.  She became… a” structure” to base my paintings.” Other works from 1970, such as “Sabel in Transition”, “Cutout Figure of Sabel 1” and “Imaginary Portrait of Sabel III” added to this distinct period of exploring Hard Edged painting that combined both the figurative and non-representational within  a span of about two years.\n The spectral form of Sabel incorporated within geometric  abstract painting featured late Hard Edged Art tenets such  as economy of forms, fullness of color, slick neat surfaces, and the non-relational arrangement of forms on the canvas. “BenCab’s  infatuation with Minimalism, however, proved to be short lived.”  But it remains a distinct period in his evolving oeuvre.  This  exceptional work resumes BenCab’s ever recurring theme of women in draperies. The woman is far from the tortured soul of BenCab’s madwoman, but the archetypal Sabel persists, what with the  voluminous fabrics layered on her body. Alice Guillermo wrote  in 2007: “One might say that the Sabel series, began in 1966 in the ink medium, is the quintessential Ben Cabrera.”","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Benedicto Cabrera</strong> (b.1942) <br /><em>Nine figure studies (Sabel)</em><br />mixed media<br />23&rdquo; x 24&rdquo; (61 cm x 61 cm)</p>","alias":"bencab","hp":4600000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":4600000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":5372800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37245,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/54/82/lot/109.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":108,"next":110,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}