{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39479,"auction_id":58,"set_id":86,"lot_number":"94","artist":"Jose Tence Ruiz  (b.1956)","title":"Monumento sa Dalagang Bukid","starting_price":120000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2009 (lower right)","medium":null,"size":"80” x 62” (203 cm x 157 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Galleria Duemila","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"“Iconic” is a much abused word in the art  world so it’s best that its meaning is clearly understood.   The Urban Dictionary defines the word as: “generally restricted to more recent, highly original, influential, or unique, work of art, artists, or performers.” It is distinguished from the word “classic”.  Like an artwork that has been judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.  Thus: Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is a classic, while Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” is iconic.\nIn Philippine art, the women of National Artist Fernando Amorsolo, known generically as  “Dalagang Bukid” (Maidens in the Field) may  be deemed classic, but Jose Tence “Bogie”  Ruiz‘  women in a series billed as “Kotilyon”  are steadily ascending to iconic status.  The  title is the Pilipino version of the word cotillion,  a formal ball, especially one at which  debutantes are presented.  Typical of Manila high society’s fervid adaptation of Western customs, the cotillion is de rigueur in these balls where Manila’s  privileged set display their wealth through their gleaming jewelry and stupendous gowns.  (Cotillion comes from the French word cotillon, meaning “border, layer, edge, and also winning or profit, as in a chance to win a mate by meeting  someone at a cotillion dance.” De rigueuris also French, meaning, of rigor or strictness.) \nWith his avid and razor-sharp eyes for the foibles and pretensions of our society, Ruiz, a stalwart of Social Realism, mocked  and denounced this extravagant and conspicuous exhibition of wealth in a country where the greater population is mired in poverty.  He presented the belles of the ball in gowns on which he has heaped an accumulation of objects suggestive of waste, devastation, and corruption. She is christened by the artist with such pompous titles as Madame, Dona, and Granducchessa.\nHowever, in a wondrous deviation from this lacerating series, is a rare work that pays, not venom, but homage, to an  unlikely belle.  She is the shy provincial beauty of Amorsolo, the “Dalagang Bukid” or maiden in the field; indeed, the work is titled “Monumento sa Dalagang Bukid.”  In an affectionate channeling of Amorsolo, she is given a contemporary Pop treatment.  Though she is attired in native dress, the baro’t saya, with its transparent “butterfly” sleeves and skirt wrapped modestly with a tapis, she undergoes a “make-over,” as in a Reality TV show.  Instead of Amorsolo’s graciously cascading tresses, she now sports a lacquered perm.  Instead of cradling sheaves of palayor a bilao of native fruits, she is holding an oversized teddy bear whose rounded eyes echo the two orbs on her face, like those Ben Day dots associated with comics illustration.  Instead of dainty chinelas, she now towers on stiletto heels.  Indeed, she is presented, as though on a dais, atop the ruins of a building.     \nAnd instead of Amorsolo’s glowing sundrenched landscape, she is enveloped by an atmospheric haze of somber green, reflective of the verdant pastoral scene of her past.  She is truly Amorsolo’s maiden, but bagong salta, or promdi, in the sarcastic slang  of the Manileño.  Newly arrived from the province, she scans the strange vista with wide, innocent eyes.  What bright or dismal  future awaits her in the concrete metropolis? In the farthest distance loom the white twin spires of a cathedral.  Unwittingly, they will remind the art connoisseur of Bogie’s rising kariton-katedral, the artist’s symbol of our impoverished people’s  unremitting embrace of their faith.  Another iconic image in the making?\nJose Tence “Bogie” Ruiz, together with Mariano Montelibano III, represented the Philippines in the 2015 Venice Biennale. \n-Cid Reye","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Jose Tence Ruiz</strong> (b.1956)<br /><em>Monumento sa Dalagang Bukid</em><br />signed (lower right) dated 2009<br />oil on linen<br />80&rdquo; x 62&rdquo; (203 cm x 157 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":550000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":550000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":642400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37783,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/58/86/lot/94.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":93,"next":95,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}