{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39958,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"53","artist":"Cesar Legaspi (1917-1994)","title":"Three Nudes","starting_price":1600000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1979 (lower right)","medium":"oil on wood","size":"48” x 30” (122 cm x 76 cm)","property":"PROPERTY OF A BEAUTIFUL LADY","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Cesar Legaspi told Cid Reyes in 1984: “I think that even  if I were to paint a completely abstract painting, I shall always be ‘abstracting’ the human figure. I can never  get away from the figure.”\nThis 1979 work was painted years before Cesar Legaspi started drawing and painting the subject by the scores  in the company of the Saturday group of artists.\nThe work is in oil, but the tonal qualities of the ochre  to orange skin and blue backdrop approximate the effect of watercolor.  Vicente Manansala’s transparent cubism would apply very aptly to this work.  One sees in his work a faceting of the nude figures into larger planes, which overlap and cut through space in transparent curvilinear rhythms and which in his work achieve a richly textured orchestration.  The subtle faceted distortion of the  women’s bodies and features performs the task  of neutralizing their voluptuous, erotic appeal.\nThe artist tends toward the lyrical when the subject is female. By contrast, his treatment of the male subject  is dramatic.\nFrom 1974 onward his paintings became more chromatic, sometimes even effluent with color, layers of transparent passages create prismatic effects.\n \nThroughout his career, Legaspi’s medium is principally oil. He works on water color only occasionally.  He works in a unique patchwork process, preferring to complete one area before going to the next.  When he paints a part of the body, for instance, he completes them before he works on the nose or the rest of the face. He makes meticulous drafts or studies before working on canvas.\n \nViewed from left to right, wraithlike nude figures glow, and switch from opaqueness to being transparent \n \nThe human figure, in its well-articulated muscular and structural frame, increasingly becomes an eloquent vehicle for expression, while a play of contrasts ensues between organic form and geometric structure, transparency and solidity, the flexible and the inexorable, tensions that generate the vitality of Legaspi’s art.\n \nAlso, the viewer will note the artist’s peculiar approach to lapidify his forms because of a central allegory operating in his works, and yet the results are anything but unrelieved solidity as Legaspi softens his carefully chiseled nudes with light which seems  to gleam or smolder from within.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Cesar Legaspi</strong> (1917-1994)<br /><em>Three Nudes</em><br />signed and dated 1979 (lower right)<br />oil on wood<br />48&rdquo; x 30&rdquo; (122 cm x 76 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":3200000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":3200000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3737600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38451,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/53.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":52,"next":54,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}