{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40063,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"160","artist":"Felix Resureccion Hidalgo (1855-1913)","title":"Chateau d'if","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and inscribed \"a su amigo M. Prieto\" (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 36 1/4” (61 cm x 92 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"A gift from the artist to Don Mauro Prieto Don Benito &quot;Bibilo&quot; Prieto y Legarda, thence by descent to his  children Alejandro, Beatriz, Jaime, Rafael, Benito, Jr., Mercedes,  and Mauro III","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo’s seascape echoes the artist’s fascination with the violence of the sea.  This work of Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo utilizes not only the painterly quality of oil, but also the singular movement of brushstrokes to create motion.  Just like his famous work “La Barca de Aqueronte”, which exemplifies this through the sway and churn of water and whitewater  bubbling around a mournful boatman, this seascape depicts foul weather, but not too gloomy for the viewer to see the lusty poetry in all that sea green tempest and hard driving, albeit invisible, wind driving the waves against a high craggy promontory in the background, which is painted sans distinct details.\nThe relationship of light and dark areas, the contrasts of movement, are largely responsible for the expressive power of the stormy shore.  Hidalgo may have been a romantic but, he was also a realist in basing his art upon experiences directly perceived in nature.\nThe fluidity of the sea, whose color, light, and atmosphere changes from one moment to the next, was a ready equivalent of the flickering reveries of Hidalgo’s brush.\nHidalgo painted this monumental sea scene with the color effects boldly and facilely applied.  In terms of quality and invention, Hidalgo’s achievements as a painter are unparalleled, and while Juan Luna is arguably the more famous of the two, some art critics consider Hidalgo the more superior painter.\nIn principle, Hidalgo’s seascape combines the strengths of both luminism and impressionism, even if he adheres to neither.   His dramatic, even impressionistic skies amid waves in some instances diverge from the becalmed seas of late 19th century painting, manifested best in the luminist style in the United States — which he never visited. Luminism is characterized  by attention to detail and the hiding of brushstrokes, while impressionism is characterized by lack of detail and an emphasis on brushstrokes.  Having taken up painting at the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura in Intramuros early in his career, he remained a classicist, preferring to work in the style recognized by the art Establishment, despite the furor over the Impressionists in the Europe of 1884.  Thus, Hidalgo’s depictions of the stormy sea mark one significant extreme of the vast range of Philippine art’s landscape traditions.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo</strong> (1855-1913)<br /><em>Chateau d&rsquo;If</em><br />signed and inscribed \"a su amigo M. Prieto\" (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />24&rdquo; x 36 1/4&rdquo; (61 cm x 92 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":11000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":11000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":12848000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38627,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/160.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":38629,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/160a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":159,"next":161,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}