{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39949,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"44","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931-2005)","title":"Cockfight","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1997 (upper left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"48” x 36” (122 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Finale Art File confirming the authenticity of this lot.","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The fauna featured in the numerous works of the iconic Ang Kiukok bear a ferocity all their own.  Savage and menacing, the  vicious dogs, agitated cats, odd horses, and fierce roosters make their appearances in the stark outskirts of Kiukok’s world. There is no determinant to where the scene is set other than the Red, sometimes Black, moon that illuminates the angst-filled realm in all its desolate expanse.\nIn this work by the modern master, we are treated to a graceful, yet violent composition — an aggressive display of aerial  combat between two fighting-cocks engaged in battle.\nKiukok’s gladiatorial roosters have had quite the evolution.  In his transition from his Machine Period to his Expressionist Period, it was his fighting-cocks that led such direction.  It was shortly after his return from the US that such fauna had emerged in his works, as opposed to that of his machine landscapes.  The warring roosters, from initially depicting such smash-mouth barbarity, have had their share of stylistic development over the years.  Numerous variations of the motif have come about, but the robust elegance and channeled rage have nonetheless been retained in their very nature — be they fighting, crowing, or even in the arms of a handler.\nKiukok’s powerful renditions of these wild beasts, austere in their grandeur and character, have given them a destitute identity. However, in the dog-eat-dog world of the renowned modern, it is the meek who become victim, and contrary to that of the human characters in this world who succumb to their grim realities, the razed environment has turned these beasts into brutal predators.\nThis very piece is from 1997, some four years before Kiukok was bestowed the honor of National Artist.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Ang Kiukok</strong> (1931-2005)<br /><em>Cockfight</em><br />signed and dated 1997 (upper left)<br />oil on canvas<br />48&rdquo; x 36&rdquo; (122 cm x 91 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":14000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":14000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":16352000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38448,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/44.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":43,"next":45,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}