{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39842,"auction_id":60,"set_id":88,"lot_number":"100","artist":"Fernando Zobel (1924-1984)","title":"Pancorbo con Reflejos","starting_price":6000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1963 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"45” x 57” (114 cm x 145 cm)","property":null,"coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":"Ramon N. Villegas &amp; Lisa Guerrero Nakpil, TWO","write_up":"Painted in May 1963, the spectacular “Pancorbo con Reflejos” (Pancorbo with  Reflections) fits in perfectly with Rafael Pérez-Madero’s definition of the new stage  in Zóbel’s painting which started precisely in 1963: “[in this stage, the painter] began  for the first time to base his work on the abstraction of imaginary landscapes, or on the recollection of these landscapes, trying to capture the more or less real color of memory”. \nThere is unquestionably no better definition of this painting.  It is the pure abstraction  of a landscape based on an observation of — and in — nature.  This is true from the title itself, with the toponym Pancorbo, referring to the mountain pass of the same name  located in this same town in Northern Spain, and the word “Reflections”, perhaps  referring to the spring sun reflecting on the water — the bluish touch on the upper part of the painting and the bright blue zone on the lower part may be there for this very reason, a clear echo of the sparkle of the water of the river — to the effect achieved,  as the entire painting appears swathed in a whitish mist rendered by brushstrokes that  call to mind the movement, space and volume of his previous stage, but this time applied to interpreting the landscape itself. \nWe previously mentioned the changes prompted by Zóbel’s trip to Italy after the 1962 Venice Biennale, although we should also consider the fact that after the Biennale the artist, who was always restless and seeking to push his boundaries, saw that it was time to usher in a new stage in his work.  From that time onward, two elements became top priority in Zóbel’s future oeuvre: the use of colour, which is not arbitrary (as it was in his saeta period, where one colour was used if its clash with any other tone produced the  vibrating effect that Zóbel sought in the 1950s) and, along with this use of color,  a desire to return to nature, either through observation and experience directly in nature or through the great artists of the past.  Therefore, there is a reference in this new stage. In the words of Zóbel himself in the interview published in the “Seria Blanca” book (White Series): “Inevitably, when a painting begins to suggest light and volume, and to the extent that it does, it stops being abstract.  This is not always a voluntary process nor a fully conscious one (…) my paintings were beginning to turn into ‘something else’; something more suggestive and less abstract.” \nOtherwise, “Pancorbo con reflejos” is a wonderful example of the best work Zóbel rendered during the stage on which the painter embarked in 1963.  Not only is the work based on nature, with clear references to Fernando Zóbel’s masters, from Rembrandt (with the presence of black on the upper part) to Turner, but the painting we are  examining also successfully resolves the problems that Zóbel as a painter had been  facing since early in his career: time (as an element that allows the celerity and action  of the painting to be solved) and the effects of light, space and volume.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Fernando Zobel</strong> (1924-1984)<br /><em>Pancorbo con Reflejos</em><br />signed (lower left) dated 1963<br />oil on canvas<br />45&rdquo; x 57&rdquo; (114 cm x 145 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":11000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":11000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":12848000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38273,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/60/88/lot/100.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":99,"next":101,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}