{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38805,"auction_id":54,"set_id":82,"lot_number":"85","artist":"Carlos ‘‘Botong’’ Francisco (1912-1969)","title":"Wawa, Angono Rizal","starting_price":8000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1963 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"21” x 28” (53 cm x 71 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":"Tangla?w: The University of the Philippines’ National Artists for the Visual Arts, Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Quezon City, 25 Oct 2007 to 9 February 2008","literature":null,"write_up":"It is easy to forget amid the modern hustle and bustle that Angono began as a lakeshore town, built around the ‘Wawa’ or Laguna de Bay, peopled by fishermen who would bring home baskets heavy with  kanduli and other freshwater catch.\nBotong Francisco, known as ‘The Poet of Angono’ for his lyrical scenes  of life in this once-beautiful town, here painted a snapshot of the life  of the fisherfolk, in the shadow of the magical Mount Banahaw, (seen  in the distance as a pale curvaceous shadow.)\nThe central element of the painting is the family of three returning after  a day’s work:  The father, mother and son.  Interestingly, Botong’s longtime assistant Salvador Juban, has pointed out that the two of the figures are reminiscent of other characters from Botong’s better-known paintings. \nThese are:  The hatted onlooker in the “Bunong Braso” watercolor  is almost the same as the father in “Wawa”;  while the boy clasping  his hands beside the “Numero Uno” band in “Hermana Mayor” appear to be one and the same person as the son in “Wawa”.  Botong, Juban recounts, relied on his beloved Angono townspeople to populate his artworks, accounting for the recurring roles for many of the characters.\nJuban also notes that these central figures were done in white  or ‘hubok’ paint to draw attention or highlight their focal position  in the work.  He furthermore states that the style and colors are similar to the watercolor “Bunong Braso”, an effect not usually found in his oil paintings — probably, says Juban, since this was not a commissioned work for a patron but a more intimate painting created for a close friend, a memento of their shared kinship in Angono.\nIndeed, “Wawa, Angono” brims with details from Botong’s hometown:  It captures the other stages of the fisherman’s day, from the ‘samil’  housing a gaggle of ‘regation’ or ‘mamakyaw’, buyers of the catch;   the woman with a basket of food, awaiting her husband’s return, the line of ‘sampayan’ or nets hung out to dry;  and a half-turned banca  with a ‘papag.’\n-Lisa Guerrero Nakpil","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Carlos &lsquo;&lsquo;Botong&rsquo;&rsquo; Francisco</strong> (1912-1969) <br /><em>Wawa, Angono Rizal</em><br />signed and dated 1963 (lower left)<br />oil on canvas<br />21&rdquo; x 28&rdquo; (53 cm x 71 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":12000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":12000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":14016000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37207,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/54/82/lot/85.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":84,"next":86,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}