{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38858,"auction_id":54,"set_id":82,"lot_number":"141","artist":"Cesar Legaspi  (1917-1994)","title":"Lavanderas","starting_price":700000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1946 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"21 1/2” x 15 1/2” (55 cm x 39 cm)","property":"Property of a distinguished lady","coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":"Roces, Alfredo, LEGASPI: The Making of a National Artist, The Crucible Workshop, Pasig City, 1993, p. 146 (illustrated)","write_up":"In 1945, Cesar Legaspi the painter earned his daily living by working at Philprom, an advertising agency.  Legaspi’s visual themes of Filipino domestic life, similar to this 1946 painting “Lavanderas”  were to regularly appear when he illustrated for the covers of This Week Magazine {edited by artist writer Hernando R. Ocampo).  In fact, as a side story, the 1948 issues which featured the famous articles of Edades during his debate with Guillermo Tolentino also featured Legaspi’s depiction of Filipino  families in humble interiors, as exemplified by this 1946 painting.\nIn September, 1948, This Week magazine published “Distortion in Art”, the first in a series of three historic articles by Edades.  The succeeding issue of This Week carried Edades’ second article, “Liberating Ourselves from Academism,“  in which he recapitulated  many points  raised  in his prewar articles,  and concluded  that modern art  had given  the Philippines a new direction.  The third and final article, “Towards  Virility in Art,” was published in the September 26, 1948 issue of the magazine.  In it, Edades observed the oriental forms had long influenced classical as well as contemporary Western art, and Philippine modernism found this “a source of courage and inspiration in their efforts to create  a new and more virile art.” Tolentino’s reply, also entitled “Distortion  in Art,” appeared in the November 7 issue of “This Week”.\nAs a key member of the mid 1940s NeoRealist group, Cesar Legaspi’s  depiction of Filipino domestic life on the covers of This Week magazine during that period of the published debates serve an important  example of how a Western style, namely cubism, became transformed and changed — indigenized, in fact, to suit the local sensibility and  temperament.\nLegaspi’s important neorealist modification of the original European cubist style that can be seen in “Lavanderas” is in the use of transparency  which, with overlapping planes, creates a refined play of depth, as well  as a lightness and echoing resonance in space.\nThe Legaspi painting “Lavanderas” from 1946 was portentous of the  sea change that was to happen in Philippine art during the late forties:  the shift from the conservative to the modernist.  \nIn 1948, Legaspi was to join the Art Association of the Philippines, won fourth prize for Sick Child in the first annual AAP contest.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Cesar Legaspi</strong> (1917-1994) <br /><em>Lavanderas</em><br />signed and dated 1946 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />21 1/2&rdquo; x 15 1/2&rdquo; (55 cm x 39 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":3000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":3000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3504000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37286,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/54/82/lot/141.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":140,"next":142,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}