{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39028,"auction_id":55,"set_id":83,"lot_number":"168","artist":"Fernando Zobel (1924-1984)","title":"Saeta 44","starting_price":7000000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 36” (61 cm x 91 cm)","property":"Property from THE Anthony Stoner collection","coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Don Rafael Perez-Madero confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Anthony \"Tony\" Stoner (1920-1914), an architect  working for Adrian Wilson Associates, was assigned to the company's Philippine branch.  Tony and his wife Marjorie (also known as \"Fifi\") arrived in Manila in 1957, living and working there for many years.  In 1973 he was promoted  to Vice President of the company.  \nTony and Fifi were avid collectors of art and artifacts from many cultures in Asia and South Asia, purchasing several paintings from the Philippine Art Gallery shortly after their arrival (as well as numerous Philippine ethnographic,  religious and historical objects).  Upon Tony's death in 2014, the paintings acquired from the Philippine Art Gallery (early works by Fernando Zobel, Ang Kiukok and Jose Joya) were inherited by his son, Mark Christopher Stoner.  Upon Mark's death in 2016, the entire estate, including the Philippine Art Gallery paintings, was inherited by his only surviving relative.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"In 1957, Fernando Zóbel devised a unique abstract idiom — the ‘Saeta’ (‘Arrow’) — and the Philippine Art Gallery is where he first exhibited it. The show, entitled “Zóbel: An Exhibition of New Paintings” introduced these highly intellectual abstract creations.\n\nHe explained the ‘Saeta’ to Don Rafael Perez-Madero in this way, \"the movement expressed metaphorically by the use of the line. Movement of leaves, herbs, trees, birds, people; Movement observed, felt, never imitated; but yes, I hope, translated.”\n\nBiographer Angeles Villalaba Salvador, noted, “The Saetas were inspired by the sand gardens that he had seen in Japan the year before. He thus created very fine calligraphic lines that overlapped on colored backgrounds, in which he tried to capture the luminism of Mark Rothko. The solution to the technical problem of using oil to create a fine, long and controlled line wasfound —- after innumerable experiments — using a surgical syringe. This instrument, which he uses constantly now, is closely related to the pen of his sketches and drawings.” \n\nZóbel was also renowned for his use of black — a thoroughly Spanish color, the color of Goya and Velasquez.\n\nIn 'Saeta 44’, he appears to successfully capture the essence of a universal life force, of an ambient energy with the explosions of chromium yellow and bright white. The background of black, that seems to have been overpainted on a copper-red base, visible at the top edges, only make the saetas more vital.\n\n-Lisa Guerrero Nakpil","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Fernando Zobel</strong> (1924-1984)<br /><em>Saeta 44</em><br />1958<br />oil on canvas<br />24&rdquo; x 36&rdquo; (61 cm x 91 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":15000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":15000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":17520000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37425,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/55/83/lot/168.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":167,"next":169,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}