{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38786,"auction_id":54,"set_id":82,"lot_number":"64","artist":"Fernando Zobel  (1924-1984)","title":"Acinipo #390","starting_price":7000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1961 (lower right and in verso)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"32” x 50” (81 cm x 127 cm)","property":"FROM THE WILLIAM AND JUNE GARGIULO\nCOLLECTION, MICHIGAN, USA.","coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Don Rafael Perez-Madero confirming the authenticity of this lot.","provenance":"The Gargiulos acquired the Zobel “Acinipo #390” in the course of Bill’s assignment in the Philippines, along with the Manansala “The Candle-Sellers” also featured in this auction.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"If Botong Francisco’s paintings captured the foibles of country folk and Enteng Manansala's chronicled the determination of the city dweller,  it may be said that Fernando Zobel y Montojo’s works embodied  a certain international cool.  It was exactly that kind of sleek, aristocratic point of view that fit in with Manila’s new persona as a metropolis  rebuilt, aggressively rising from the ashes of World War II as Asia’s  premier economy.\nIndeed, while Botong and Enteng were sons of militiamen and barbers, Fernando Zobel was born into a family of landowners and industrialists.  His father, Enrique, had in fact bankrolled Fernando Amorsolo’s art  education at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid —  so impressed was he by Amorsolo’s design of the Ginebra San Miguel  gin label which is still in use to this day.\nZobel himself would study at Harvard and the Rhode Island School  of Design and would return to Manila in 1951.  He would be  immediately accepted as a sort of guru and would be elected president of the influential Art Association of the Philippines in back-to-back  years in 1953 and 1954.\nAlso in 1954, he would participate in the landmark “First Exhibition  of Non-Objective Art in Tagala” organized by art critic Magtanggul Asa at the already influential Philippine Art Gallery, the only gallery in the country to offer modern art exclusively.\nHe would next devise the ‘Saeta’ (or ‘Arrow’) in 1957, brilliantly using  a hypodermic syringe to shoot out the lines that, for him, symbolized  the ultimate ‘improvisation’ and spontaneity.  The works were unveiled  at an exhibition at the Philippine Art Gallery, at a show simply called  “An Exhibit of New Paintings.”  Zobel appears to have been much  influenced by a trip to Japan in the previous year where he was struck  by the zen-like quality of the patterns drawn in Tokyo’s sand gardens.\nFrom 1959 to 1962, he would create the Serie Negra (Black Series.)  He explained that,  \"When all color disappear, the vibrations  produced by the contrast of one or more colors are annulled.   At the same time, it manages to suggest direction, speed or volume by means of the dry brush strokes of the black calligraphies.”\nHe defined his paintings in the Black Series thus:  \"Paintings of light and line, of movement. Pictures of quick, improvised execution,  like Chinese and Japanese painting.  Improvisation allowed  by a meditated endless of drawings.  Line;  trajectory.  Movements, footprints.  Painting without fuss, without anguish.  Traditional, yes, but of the 'other' Spanish tradition.  Of Velazquez, as opposed to Goya.  Of that Velazquez that gives the same value to the Infanta, to the frock that she wears and to the curtain that she has behind her head.”\n“Acinipo #390” takes its name from the ancient Roman term for “among the vineyards”, suggesting that this town, (now known as Ronda, in Malaga, southern Spain), produced wine.  Dating from the first century B.C., it is believed to have been set up as a sort of retirement place for Julius Caesar’s officers and troops.  The ruins of the craggy amphitheater and the rugged terrain illuminated intense sunlight have the same powerful energy that resonates in Zobel’s work.\nDated 28 January 1961, “Acinipo #390” was painted the year that Zobel would move to Spain for good.\n-Lisa Guerrero Nakpil","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Fernando Zobel</strong> (1924-1984)<br /><em>Acinipo #390</em><br />signed and dated 1961 (lower right and in verso) <br />oil on canvas<br />32&rdquo; x 50&rdquo; (81 cm x 127 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":20000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":20000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":23360000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37174,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/54/82/lot/64.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[],"prev":63,"next":65,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}