{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39919,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"13","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972)","title":"El Encuentro de Oro Por Salcedo","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1952 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"8 1/4” x 12 1/4” (21 cm x 31 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SPANISH COLLECTION","coa":"Leon Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo for confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Leon Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo for confirming the authenticity of this lot\nOn Amorsolo’s easels lay glowing horizons of exoticism, drama, and all the sensuous romanticism that Philippine history offered. With the neck of the leader among the Spaniards enveloped by lace ruffs hinted by white brushstrokes, elaborately costumed Spaniards meet with the Filipino natives, with a brook separating the two parties.  Amorsolo’s aesthetic interest in the figure, nude or nearly so, took several thematic forms, thus again, Amorsolo painted the female nude symbolizing the indigenous  Filipina as integral to a historical scenario.\nThis very work depicts the story of a certain Spanish conquistador by the name of Salcedo — most probably Juan de Salcedo, grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi — who quested to the Philippines to assist with its colonization.  In this scene, we see  a moment in Salcedo’s sojourn in search of ore in Sinait of the Ilocos region.  A valiant, and respected leader — by both parties — Salcedo is seen meeting with the Filipino locales of the area.  This very scene, being only some weeks before Salcedo’s demise as he eventually succumbs to a harsh fever in the very region.\nAmorsolo‘s anecdotal paintings are a mixture of “the grand manner of the school of Luna and the soft compositions and sweet colors of the genre painters” according to Alfredo Roces in a 1975 magazine article.\nSomehow the dramatic impact and movement needed no such efforts.  Because the anecdotal tells the story, it must do so  effectively without appearing as mere magazine illustration, and here lies the success of Amorsolo’s historical paintings. Amorsolo’s works are given with great truth and refinement — the unconscious grandeur of indigenous Filipino attitudes  and gestures.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Fernando Amorsolo</strong> (1892-1972)<br /><em>El Encuentro de Oro Por Salcedo</em><br />signed and dated 1952 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />8 1/4&rdquo; x 12 1/4&rdquo; (21 cm x 31 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":2400000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2400000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2803200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38401,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/13.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":12,"next":14,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}