{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39970,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"65","artist":"Claudio Bravo (1936-2011)","title":"Chona Recto Kasten","starting_price":1800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1968 (lower right)","medium":"mixed media","size":"43 1/2” x 29 1/4” (110 cm x 74 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":"Cid Reyes and Liliane Rejante Manahan, Claudio Bravo: Sojourn in Manila, Lopez Group Foundation Inc., Pasig City, 2012, p. 50 (illustrated)","write_up":"This is a portrait of an extremely cool Chona Recto Ysmael wearing a fuchsia silk &quot;jelaba&quot; by Christian Espiritu that so flattered her olive skin, her left arm akimbo with her hand nonchalantly resting on her hip to set off immaculately carved ivory bangles that were awesome against those impossibly thin wrists.  Her raven-black hair was cut in a perky bob, but her smile was more  tentative, not quite ready to betray a thought that had just crossed her mind.  Her eyes were more unequivocal, with that  glint of anticipation for what the marvelous evening had to offer.\nThis portrait of Chona Recto Ysmael in the living room of her home was so vivid, so compelling, that we could never stop  looking at it each time we came to visit.  It was like there was always a new secret waiting to be unlocked during each  viewing — very much like Chona herself.\nAlthough her reputation as one of Manila’s most elegant women always preceded her, one is never prepared for the first  encounter.  She was beautiful, yes, and always well-dressed and impeccable.  But much more than these qualities, it was  an innate grace and generous spirit that never failed to overwhelm, and as you get to know her, you are even more enthralled by the stories she has to tell, whether it’s about a weekend with jet-setting glitterati aboard a yacht in Capri or a promising young designer she met in bohemian Malate.\nThese portraits — the subjects of which include the likes of Tingting Cojuangco, Jaime and Beatriz Zobel de Ayala, and  of course, then-President Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos — are the works of the late Chilean painter Claudio Bravo,  who was in Manila for a six-month visit in 1968.\nAs a backgrounder, in 1968, the famous Chilean painter Claudio Bravo received an invitation from President Marcos of the  Philippines to come and paint him and his wife, Imelda, as well as members of the high society.  He spent six months there  doing portraits and traveling.  Bravo found that the quality of light there was more intense than in Spain or Chile, and  it transformed how he painted while there. “(The) Philippines was the tropics, a different vision of the world and of light.  There I began to dare use more ‘electric’ colors and to enjoy color…” Bravo said.\n \nIn many of the portraits, Bravo also used color unapologetically: Imelda Cojuangco, resplendent in amethyst robes against  a bright purple background; Baby Fores, a subversive Venus Pudica in a shining amber sheet; Alice Recto verdant in different shades of green; and this portrait of Chona Kasten in an orchid dress against a tangerine sunset.\n \nAlthough he later lived in seclusion and held himself apart from the New Realist movement, Claudio Bravo’s precise renditions  of objects and people accurately place him in the world of hyperrealism.\nCite Source:  Lopez Museum and Library, “Who are the Bravo Women?”, lopezseum.blogspot.com, 30 August, 2012.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Claudio Bravo</strong> (1936-2011)<br /><em>Chona Recto Kasten</em><br />signed and dated 1968 (lower right)<br />mixed media<br />43 1/2&rdquo; x 29 1/4&rdquo; (110 cm x 74 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":1900000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1900000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2219200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38464,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/65.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":64,"next":66,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}