{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39562,"auction_id":58,"set_id":86,"lot_number":"169","artist":"Lee Aguinaldo (1933-2007)","title":"Linear Explosion No. 2","starting_price":2000000,"signed_dated":"signed, titled, and dated 1959 (in verso)","medium":null,"size":"48” x 72” (122 cm x 183 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist by Houston Haile who was assigned as special  agent in the Philippines after World War II.  Upon his demise, his three paintings  by Lee Aguinaldo which formed part of his estate were inherited by his sister  Louise Haile Lewis.","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"“The mythic image of Pollock, an edgy ‘Jack the Dripper,’ persists today”  (“Leaving His Mark” by Michael Fitz Gerald, Vogue, November 1998)  as it persisted in the late 1950s of Lee Aguinaldo’s youth.\nSoon after Pollock slammed his car into a tree and died at the age of 44 in 1956,  his art acquired a reputation for evoking an unchecked, elemental force.   To American critic Clement Greenberg, it was the physicality of the paintings'  clotted and oil-caked surfaces that was the key to understanding them as  documents of the artist’s' existential struggle. \nUntil the beginning of the 1950s, most Americans thought of abstract painting  as something foreign, without roots or future in the United States. Only when the  “drip” paintings of Jackson Pollock were featured in Life magazine in 1945 did American Abstract art suddenly acquire popular cachet.  Aguinaldo had no formal art education, yet during his stay in New York, he frequented the Metropolitan Museum.   The self-taught Aguinaldo held his first exhibit in 1958, and his works were clearly influenced by Pollock. \nArtists like Aguinaldo and the public at large learned to view Pollock’s work and that of other so called New York school painters as responses to the Atomic Age climate of “perpetual crisis,” and it even became a point of pride that abstract painting done in a new, go for broke American manner had stolen the fire of modern art from Europe.\nFull of bright, inscrutable jottings in the skyline or landscape-like spaces, Linear Explosion No.2 has an intensity that suggests private notations of a vast, inner world, and in the same vein, perpetual crisis.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Lee Aguinaldo</strong> (1933-2007)<br /><em>Linear Explosion No.2</em><br />signed, titled, and dated 1959 (in verso)<br />oil on board<br />48&rdquo; x 72&rdquo; (122 cm x 183 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":8400000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":8400000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":9811200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37896,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/58/86/lot/169.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":168,"next":170,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}