{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40415,"auction_id":64,"set_id":92,"lot_number":"71","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931-2005)","title":"Still Life with Mangoes","starting_price":2000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1959 (lower right)","medium":"oil on board","size":"25” x 36” (64 cm x 92 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Sotheby’s, Singapore  Private Collection, Makati City","exhibited":null,"literature":"Roces, Alfredo, “Kiukok: Deconstructing Despair,” Mandaluyong City, 2000, fig. 32","write_up":"Eminent art critic Cid Reyes asked Ang Kiukok: “You’re very fond of doing still lifes.  Do you copy them from actual objects?” Ang Kiukok answered: “No, I just use my imagination.  I don’t want them to be realistic.”\n \nCid Reyes: “Do you constantly change styles?” Ang Kiukok: “No, I don’t know.  I don’t think my style changes.  It changed only when I came back from the United States.”\n \nHere is a still life from early on in Ang Kiukok’s career, the 1950s, before his first, and style changing, trip to the United States; and the influence of his teacher Vicente Manansala is very apparent.\nKiukok’s first formal recognition came in the form of a third prize award in the Shell National Students Art Competition for  Calesa in 1953.  Then, at the urging of Vicente Manansala, Kiukok launched his first one-man show at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in 1954.  After that, he earned numerous awards from the Art Association of the Philippines for his works: Honorable Mention, “Still Life” (1951), First Prize, “The Bird” (1959), Third Prize, “Still Life in Red” (1963), Second Prize, “Fish” (1963), and Second Prize on “Geometric Still-Life Fish” (1963).\n \nAng Kiukok’s earliest works had a quiet, even calming, lyricism that through the decades vanished from the seventies onwards.\nIn 1952, Ang Kiukok left Davao to study fine arts at the University of Santo Tomas.  Vicente Manansala became his professor in composition and watercolor.  Among his other professors were Victorio Edades, Diosdado Lorenzo, Jose Garcia Llamas, Galo Ocampo, and Virginia Ty.  Due to financial difficulties, Kiukok left school on his third year, although, he would return for a year in 1955 to study portraiture.  With the urging of Manansala, Ang held his first show in 1954 at the Philippine Contemporary Art Gallery managed by Manuel Rodriguez Sr., the pioneering printmaker.  In 1957, he held his second exhibit at the Philippine Art Gallery, the first gallery in Manila, run by Lydia Villanueva Arguilla.\n \nThe turning point of his career as an artist came in 1965 when he and the late Vicente Manansala travelled to New York.  There, he was surprised at the urban squalor and alienation he found, and was influenced by American abstract art.\nUpon his return to the Philippines, his style took a turn towards a new vivid Expressionism that included themes of agony,  sorrow, and madness.\n \nEmmanuel Torres wrote in1974 that “he started pulling away from monochromatic grays after his 1964 sell out show, and a brief ‘educational’ trip to the USA.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Ang Kiukok</strong> (1931 - 2005)<br /><em>Still Life with Mangoes</em><br />signed and dated 1959 (lower right)<br />oil on board<br />25&rdquo; x 36&rdquo; (64 cm x 92 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":4200000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":4200000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":4905600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39470,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/64/92/lot/71.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":70,"next":72,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}