{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40724,"auction_id":65,"set_id":93,"lot_number":"201","artist":"Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914-2012)","title":"Fish Harvest at Dawn","starting_price":6000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1979 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"48” x 60” (122 cm x 152 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Leon Gallery wishes to thank Ms. Doris Magsaysay-Ho for confirming the authenticity of this lot.","provenance":"Acquired directly from the artist","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"While Magaysay-Ho’s gendered paintings do celebrate a sisterhood of Asian women, they  are just more than paintings about women by a woman.  They stretch beyond our memories.  But they are also about our memories.  Anita Magsaysay-Ho never paints her women  singularly- they are always in groups while performing a particular rural task. Anita Magsaysay-Ho is quoted:”My mother loved nature. She would go fishing at night with her friends during our vacations in Zambales. They’d be carrying out lights.  When asked why she loved to fish, she explained “President Roosevelt’s favourite pastime was fishing, so why not me?” “I went fishing with my mother along the bakawan or mangroves.  There was an abundance of fish and crabs caught in the holes in the sand as the tide went down.  We would go home and boil them for dinner.  I always reminisce about these experiences…” “…I love painting nets because it is a challenge to capture their transparency and the play of lights they create.” A distinctive Magsaysay Ho tool of creating illusion is her use of light.  In the book ANITA MAGSAYSAY-HO - IN PRAISE OF WOMEN, Alfredo Roces writes: “Anita conjures light to play on the faces of the women, on the folds of their tapis and skirts, on the paper that wrap the fish.  But her paintings claim no natural common light source as you expect to see in nature. The lighting is not photographic, unless you bring up the glare of artificial lights mobilized by studio photographers.  In available light photography, lights and shadows obey the laws of nature and receive direction from a fixed light source, be it from above, or below, or to one side or the other… Often the women’s faces appear to have been lit… the yellowish lights highlighting facial parts usually shrouded in shadow… I think of the celebrated Caravaggio and even more so, of the 17th century Lorrainese painter Georges de la Tour.  Their dramatic and sometimes ethereal lighting of figures resonate in Magsaysay-Ho’s works.”","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":45000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":45000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":52560000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39862,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/65/93/lot/201.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[],"prev":200,"next":202,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}