{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39989,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"84","artist":"Anita Magsaysay-Ho  (1914-2012)","title":"The Good Life","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)","medium":"oil on wood","size":"10” x 14” (25 cm x 36 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, USA","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The 1940s saw the first stirrings of progressive art in the Philippines with the emergence of the Thirteen Moderns, of which  Anita Magsaysay-Ho is to later be a part of.\nHowever, Fernando Amorsolo was the central figure in Philippine painting during the earlier Commonwealth period onwards  to wartime.\n \nAnita Magsaysay-Ho studied at the University of the Philippines (UP) School of Fine Arts under Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo, Fabian de la Rosa, and Vicente Rivera y Mir, among others. During the early 1940s, Magsaysay-Ho’s works showed the influence of Amorsolo in choice of subjects and in treatment of light and color. \n \nIn 1945, the year she painted this barrio scene, Anita Magsaysay Ho participated in a show sponsored by the U.S. Information Service, in Manila.\n \nIn “The Good Life”, Magsaysay Ho’s heavy brushstrokes and rough textures are built on a more sensitive interpretation  of realistic forms of the landscape and genre. She paints in a vigorous and spontaneous painterly style, the brushstrokes with traces of pigment lending actual texture.\nHeavy brushstrokes work out a richly impasto surface of tempered colors. The color scheme is gorgeous, a complex scheme  of cool and warm hues.\nThe trees have a lush verdure which contrasts with the scumbled white shirts of the figures. Everything dissolves into barely recognizable forms and linear rhythms created by rough brushwork.\nMagsaysay Ho’s touch has a vernal freshness. Instead of going for ponderousness to detail, she chooses to recreate a vivid  impression of daily rural life seen first-hand with disarming casualness.\n \nThe work is an ideal example of experiencing the many nuances of color and tonal value.\nThe colors are mixed with a dash of the respective complimentary color to modulate intensity. Pure color is rendered lush and cool as an effect of the skillful interplay of variations of yellow to ochre to brown.\nPerspective is suggested by the superimposition of the nipa hut, the vegetable trellis, the farmer and son and the trees\n \nObviously, her distortions are not yet to appear here. It is seven years later that her entry to the 1952 annual competition of the Art Association of the Philippines, the genre themed “The Cooks” won first prize; and not far off, the triumph of the modernists against the conservatives was still to happen in the mid-1950s.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Anita Magsaysay-Ho</strong> (1914-2012)<br /><em>The Good Life</em><br />Ca.1945<br />signed (lower right)<br />oil on wood<br />10&rdquo; x 14&rdquo; (25 cm x 36 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":3400000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":3400000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3971200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38500,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/84.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":83,"next":85,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}