{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39484,"auction_id":58,"set_id":86,"lot_number":"91","artist":"Pablo Amorsolo  (1898-1945)","title":"Manila Bay","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1943 (lower right)","medium":null,"size":"14” x 20” (36 cm x 51 cm)","property":"Property from the J. Antonio Araneta Collection","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":"1030 R. HIDALGO Volume 2: LEGACY IN ART, Edited by Antonio S. Araneta, MARA Inc., Metro Manila, 1986, p. 89 (illustrated)","write_up":"Giving form to the sea perpetually hurling itself against the tropical shore was a mesmerizing pursuit for so many early twentieth century Filipino artists and Pablo Amorsolo exalts that tradition in this romantically elegiac of melancholy work.  Pablo Amorsolo preferred to paint early in the morning or late afternoon, utilizing local color and the extreme time of the day can be gleaned in the tell-tale shadows in this bucolic seascape.  This seashore scene seems to be a metaphor to a creative life which culminated in a tragic end.\nPablo Amorsolo completed elementary and secondary schooling at the Liceo de Manila, and graduated from the UP School of Fine Arts in 1924.  Two years later, he was appointed assistant instructor in the school, where he taught until World War 2 broke out.\nAn admirer of classical art, Pablo Amorsolo was also a strong advocate of modern art.  In the 1930s, he was one of the most prolific editorial illustrators in pen and ink for such publications as the Graphic, Tribune, La Vanguardia, Herald, and others.\nHis illustrations which portrayed a wide variety of domestic and social situations contributed to the rise of genre art in the  country. \nHis skilled brushwork could breathe life into his subjects, which he painted truthfully and without idealization.  He painted  subjects from all social classes and age levels.  Historical subjects also interested him, as in his painting Magellan and the  Natives and his large scale masterpiece, The Discovery of the Philippines, painted in 1944.\nWhen he shifted to landscape and genre paintings, Pablo consciously ignored his brother, Fernando’s palette. Instead, he fell  under the spell of Fabian de la Rosa.  His rendition of scenes was honest and direct, somber in color and almost always rendered in monochromatic tones. \nFew of Pablo Amorsolo’s paintings are extant because a large number of his works were destroyed in a fire in 1945. \nPablo Amorsolo sincerely advocated the Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere and served as a colonel in the Kempeitai.   When the Americans returned, he was captured by Philippine troops and was killed by a guerrilla firing squad in Antipolo.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Pablo Amorsolo</strong> (1898-1945)<br /><em>Manila Bay</em><br />signed and dated 1943 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />14&rdquo; x 20&rdquo; (36 cm x 51 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":900000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":900000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1051200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37774,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/58/86/lot/91.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":90,"next":92,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}