{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39540,"auction_id":58,"set_id":86,"lot_number":"149","artist":"Hernando R. Ocampo (1911-1978)","title":"Untitled","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1961 (lower right)","medium":null,"size":"28” x 22” (71 cm x 56 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Colors in motion arrested in space — this phrase best describes this 1961 abstraction by H.R. Ocampo.\nBy the early 1960s, the artist wanted to paint absolute abstractions; he is eager to avoid what may be called “pictorial” readings.\nH.R. Ocampo truly was an outsider.  He never travelled abroad, yet he developed his own language that was “sui generis” as far as the history of Philippine abstraction is concerned. \nWith a palette of earthy, tropical colors, Ocampo creates an illusion of less structured composition, acting entirely on intuition. \nThe swirls and the treatment of paint seems at first to lack all conscious control, but is an accurate projection of the artist’s  particular aesthetic goal which is utter abstraction — the absence of narrative in the paintings and drawings, despite the moving and profoundly intellectual subject matter that inspired them. \nThe artist’s hypnotic abstractions take inspiration from the otherworldly rhythms of nature.  Using movement and bold colors, Ocampo utilized fantasy and science fiction as the basis for his works.  He thrives in forms that are very delicate, and he makes these pulsate with his choice of colors that seem to be set in dynamic motion.\nThis 1961 work gives fruition to the dynamic tension between colors that would characterized his work for more than two  decades. \nThe late art historian and critic Rod Paras-Perez wrote: “His paintings thus attained a sense of depth without breaking the  surface matrix; a sense of a variety of moving shapes without destroying surface serenity of the painting….”\nIt is the tension between vulnerability and permanence that pervades in Ocampo’s oeuvre. \nHis transitional period, 1945-1963, was a period of intense creativity in painting, showing an increasing tendency to abstraction in their primary concern for design, color and texture.  His paintings became a living, organic, logical unit.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Hernando R. Ocampo</strong> (1911-1978)<br /><em>Untitled</em><br />signed and dated 1961 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />28&rdquo; x 22&rdquo; (71 cm x 56 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":8500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":8500000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":9928000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37864,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/58/86/lot/149.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":148,"next":150,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}