{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40248,"auction_id":63,"set_id":91,"lot_number":"112","artist":"Guillermo Tolentino (1890-1976)","title":"Future Champion","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1954","medium":"original plaster of paris figure","size":"H:40 1/2” x L:16” x W:10” (103 cm x 41 cm x 25 cm","property":null,"coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued","provenance":"Maria Luz Moreno Private Collection","exhibited":null,"literature":"Tolentino: Iskultor ng mga Bayani, Museo ng Malaca","write_up":"Standing proud and unyielding, “Future Champion” By National Artist Guillermo  Tolentino is a masterful rendition of a child’s human form.  But this piece is made even  more poignant because the subject is the artist’s own son.  With a steady gaze and the  look of victory, his tiny arms, bent to show what little muscles he has, portends a  momentous event is this boy’s future.  More importantly, the single hand of the father  holding the boy’s feet in one hand, tells the story of an ever supportive parent, strong in physique and stronger in resolve.  A champion to the son as well. Guillermo Tolentino’s struggle to master the human figure in the round during his school years abroad is the stuff of legend.   In 1919, Tolentino enrolled at the Ecole de Beaux Arts for advanced courses in sculpture with a substantial scholarship grant from Bernard Baruch, a prominent American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, and statesman of the era.  In his  monumental book, “TOLENTINO,” Rod Paras Perez writes: “Tolentino now plunged into his studies with a gusto tantamount  to physical hunger: figures in clay — of men and women — assumed forms with frenzied speed under his tireless, kneading  fingers…Figures in clay and sheet after sheet of drawings sprang from his hands….Indeed for every series of drawings done around a model, there was almost always a similar sculpture.” While studying, he worked as messenger and assistant to  American sculptor Gutzon Borglum, earning $11 a week.  In 1921, he finished his course at the Ecole de Beaux Arts with  monetary, medal, and diploma awards.  That same year, he left for Europe. Tolentino stayed in London for a week, visiting museums and art galleries.  He went on to Paris and stayed there for another week.  Then, he moved to Rome where he spent the next three and a half years.  There he entered the Regge Instituto  Superiore di Belle Arti di Roma.  In the book “TOLENTINO,” author Paras Perez adds: “Once more, he incessantly drew the  nude.  And when the figure was draped, he mastered the folds with the same thoroughness he handled anatomy [with].  Then he drew and modeled from memory. But training did not stop there. He had to see the figure in relation to its  surroundings.  He learned to understand one of the cornerstones of the renaissance: perspective.”","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Guillermo Tolentino</strong> (1890-1976)<br /><em>Future Champion</em><br />signed and dated 1954<br />original plaster of paris figure<br />H:40 1/2&rdquo; x L:16&rdquo; x W:10&rdquo; (103 cm x 41 cm x 25 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":650000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":650000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":759200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39214,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/63/91/lot/112.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":111,"next":113,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}