{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40042,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"137","artist":"Oscar Zalameda (1930-2010)","title":"Boatman","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"30” x 36” (76 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Makati City","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Zalameda’s juxtaposition of bold colors and strokes transforms the boat and rushing rapids into a virtual abstract pattern.  This dynamic riverscape by Zalameda begs to ask us how far ranging was the engagement of Filipino artists with both cubism and abstraction? While a handful of midcentury Filipino artists demonstrated a precise understanding of the tenets and implications of European rooted cubism and American rooted abstraction, other painters like Zalameda were more gingerly in their approach, borrowing the surface aspects of cubism yet never departing from the naturalistic basis of their art. \n \nZalameda seems to teach the viewers that abstraction need not be hard to read, and need not be willfully ambiguous.\nAs always, Zalameda’s abstraction reveals a style that has not completely given up imagery.   The lines and forms that characterize his landscapes are still evident in his later works.  This influence would be traced  to a fruitful stay in Mexico during the late 1950s.\nDominantly intense in color, the blues of his mountains and rivers and the deep red oranges of his suns support the movement and ephemeral action of the river.\n“I’m basically an intense person, a lover of life and people,” he declared in 1978.\nOscar Zalameda is best known for the style that would be his signature: the looser cubist forms accompanied by the bold and assured colors, as manifested in the array of blues that define the river rapids and the sky.  Strategic areas of warmer colors  such as on the beat accent the serenely dynamic visual experience.\n \nIt has been said that Zalameda left a body of work that he numbers at around 1,000 pieces, the artist turning out no more than 50 works a year.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Oscar Zalameda</strong> (1930-2010)<br /><em>Boatman</em><br />signed (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />30&rdquo; x 36&rdquo; (76 cm x 91 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":500000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":584000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38581,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/137.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":136,"next":138,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}