{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40283,"auction_id":63,"set_id":91,"lot_number":"147","artist":"Vicente Manansala (1910-1981)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":2000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1971 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas, board","size":"22” x 26” (104 cm x 69 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"My parents, Allan & Paula Kline, moved to Manila i","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The cubist geometricizing style lends itself successfully to the  subject.  Structured into planes and facets, the mother and child figure acquires an essential simplicity and austere purity.  The central figure conveys a presence that consists of simplicity in the lack of embellishments and dignity and solidity in the broadly structured facets. Unlike in the style of analytical cubism, Manansala does not fragment and dissect the human figures, rather, he keeps the identity intact by staying close to the figure which he simplifies into its basic geometric structure.  For Manansala, cubism was not a fragmenting or dehumanizing principle, but a structuring one.  The artist also brings out the humanism of the subject, even if the mother has her back towards the viewer.  The baby seems to be curled into a fetal position even if it is on the  hammock, and the mother stoops towards the child while on her knees, both protective gestures against the unpredictable  elements of the world. Manansala’s canvases were described as masterpieces that brought the cultures of the barrio and the city together.  His mother and child themes started with his Madonna of  the Slums from 1950, which is a portrayal of a mother and child from the countryside  who became urban shanty residents once in the city.  Manansala combined the elements  of provincial folk culture with transparent cubism, wherein the “delicate tones, shapes,  and patterns of figure and environment that Manansala developed are masterfully  superimposed.”   Manansala was, of course, influenced by other artists such as Picasso, Braque, Gris and  Klee.  But it is the folk substance which he shares with Botong which gave his paintings  their distinctive signature. Cid Reyes told him in a 1973 interview: “Napa sobra naman ho yata ang influence  sainyo ni Botong Francisco.  Na-capture ninyo nang husto ang kanyang style.” Manansala answered: ”Hindi lang style, pati feeling.” A similar looking “Mother and Child” by Manansala, from 1965, is at the Singapore Art Museum.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Vicente Manansala</strong> (1910-1981)<br /><em>Mother and Child</em><br />signed and dated 1971 (lower left)<br />oil on canvas board<br />22&rdquo; x 26&rdquo; (104 cm x 69 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":5500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":5500000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":6424000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39267,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/63/91/lot/147.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":146,"next":148,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}