{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40462,"auction_id":64,"set_id":92,"lot_number":"118","artist":"Fabian de la Rosa (1869-1937)","title":"Mujer Europa","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"oil on canvas","size":"23” x 15” (58 cm x 38 cm)","property":"Property formerly in the Collection Of don \nalfonso T. Ongpin","coa":null,"provenance":"Alfonso Ongpin, thence by descent Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":"Luciano P.R. Santiago, et al.,FilNet Art Series: Fabian de la Rosa and His Times, UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum and  Vibal Publishing House, Inc., 2007, p. 8","write_up":"The book “Fabian de la Rosa and His Times” says: “De  la Rosa’s first period reveals an academical art, whose dark tones seek the classical…This early stage may be further subdivided into two phases: from 1879 to 1893, before he entered the Manila Art Academy; and from 1893 to 1908, before he considered European art styles...\n \n...Women’s portraits are the most characteristic works of the master; his first and last known obras are  women’s portraits. Even his genre paintings often seem to be group portraits of the fair sex, whether working in the verdant fields under the sun or relaxing in the elegant homes of the elite.” \n \nEmmanuel Torres, in a 1974 article, wrote about the  artist’s fussy quirks: “As a portraitist, Don Fabian  proved to be very much his own man, resisting such blandishments as would glamorize or flatter his  model…\n…Rather than put up with the caprices of wealthy or famous sitters, he would suggest discontinuing work altogether.  Occasionally, other than overwork, a canvas that had sat too long at the easel, he would erase an almost finished portrait and start anew to regain spontaneity. Such scrupulous attitudes to craft used to infuriate his clients.”\n \nThe hardbound book series FILIPINO HERITAGE, Vol. 9 (Manila: Lahing Filipino Publications, Inc. 1978, pages 2428-2433) says: “Fabian de la Rosa…was… the first artist to receive the recognition and acclaim that was given to artists during the American regime.”\n \nFabian Cueto de la Rosa was noted for his realistic portraits, genre paintings, and landscapes in subdued colors. He became an apprentice of Simon Flores. He enrolled at the Escuela Superior de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura in 1893 (or the Manila Art  Academy), two years after producing his first known masterpiece, La Perla de Lucban. \n \nWhat puts Don Fabian’s works clearly above those of his contemporaries is a predilection for orchestrating pictorial elements of line, color, tone, and space in precious balance. Each is subordinated to the total effect the painting is after; none dominates over the others, the whole is always greater than the sum of the isolated parts.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Fabian de la Rosa</strong> (1869-1937)<br /><em>Mujer Europa</em><br />oil on canvas<br />23&rdquo; x 15&rdquo; (58 cm x 38 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":1200000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1200000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1401600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39539,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/64/92/lot/118.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":117,"next":119,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}