{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39578,"auction_id":58,"set_id":86,"lot_number":"189","artist":"Vicente Manansala (1910-1981)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":1200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1956 (lower right)","medium":null,"size":null,"property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Muntinlupa City","exhibited":null,"literature":"Benavides, Dolores L., Modern Art Today, Philippine Progress, Manila, 1956, p.77 (illustrated)","write_up":"Manansala's mother and child themes started with his Madonna of the Slums from 1950, which is a portrayal of a mother and child from the countryside who became urban shanty residents once in the city.  This “Mother and Child” from 1956 is expressive of the feelings of anxiety and insecurity of the time.  The image is of a keen and watchful mother whose child's hand is against her face in a gesture that suggests protection against the harshness of life.  The influence of another legendary National Artist can be gleaned in the visual aesthetic Manansala employs in this early work. Manansala was interviewed in 1976:\nQuestion: Who has influenced you deeply?\nMannsala: Carlos Botong Francisco. Let me tell you how deep his influence is on me.  In 1960, I was looking at photographs of  some paintings in a newspaper article on ten Filipino paintings to be exhibited in Australia. I thought one of the paintings was  a particularly good one by Francisco…I told myself, why, this is an excellent Francisco.  When I looked closer at the picture and read the caption, I realized I had done the painting.”\n \nManansala captures the pathos of midcentury urban poor culture at a time when he had not yet developed the technique of  transparent cubism, although the archetypal cubistic execution of the subjects is evident.  “Cubism then became the generating  force of Manansala's mature works, the stylistic center of his main oeuvres.  It was not a master-follower relationship — it was  more like extending the premises of a tradition.  Cubism did not curtail the dimension of Manansala's vision.  He enriched the style and gave it a new context.  Above all, he gave it a new sense of place.\"\n- Rodolfo Paras-Perez, Manansala, Manila, 1980, p. 75","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Vicente Manansala</strong> (1910-1981)<br /><em>Mother and Child</em><br />signed and dated 1956 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />24&rdquo; x 20&rdquo; (61 cm x 51 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":2800000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2800000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3270400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37916,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/58/86/lot/189.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":188,"next":190,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}