{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40616,"auction_id":65,"set_id":93,"lot_number":"94","artist":"Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (1932-2011)","title":"Quatro Marias (Tres Marias Series)","starting_price":300000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1986 (upper right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"28” x 34” (71 cm x 86 cm)","property":null,"coa":"This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Mr. Christian Aguilar confirming the authenticity of this lot.","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The Tres Marias suite reflected Federico Aguilar Alcuaz’ happily peripatetic career, from Manila to Barcelona and beyond.   While this signature genre of his did not always follow the rule that there had to be three subjects, happily the idea caught on,  however many the women are.  Alcuaz’ Tres Marias genre featured beautiful, long gowned women with a 19th century air engaged in a variety of domestic activities. Like the nudes, his gray color scheme must have come from the influence of Velazquez and Goya, and in these he also shares kinship with Juan Luna.  One unusual painting here of the series shows the Tres Marias happily with their guard down. Alcuaz wrote in1982: “I had all the abstracts… and the paintings of the Tres Marias took place… with a completely different atmosphere.” “The secondary purpose of the Tres Marias is to warm me up to make the portraits… but then when I started with the Tres Marias, I did almost a hundred and could not get away from it, and even when I decided to stop, I continued with the usual abstracts without being able to make one portrait.” It can be said that the Tres Marias of Alcuaz, just like his portraits, are, in Leonidas Benesa’s words in 1975, “Expressionist but not Expressionist; they are expressionist in that they are interpretative in character.  They could also belong to the impressionist tradition, except that color divisionism is not used and dark hues are not necessarily excluded from his palette.  It will be recalled that the Impressionists banished black and its tonalities from their paintings, an act pregnant with psychological implications. Alcuaz gives a treatment of his women with, again in the words of Benesa, “The idealizing, romanticizing touch (for the) fair sex…” An award winning Filipino painter, Alcuaz exhibited extensively and internationally, and his works earned him recognition both  in the Philippines and abroad. In 1949–1950 Federico Aguilar Alcuaz took up painting subjects at the University of the Philippines (UP) School of Fine Arts.  In 1955, he went to Madrid with a scholarship at the Academia de San Fernando which he got through the help of the  Jesuits from the Ateneo de Manila.  In 1956, he chose Barcelona as his career base.  He also became a member of the La  Punalada Group which counted among its members Tàpies, Cuixart, and Tharrats.  In the same year, he began signing his  paintings with Aguilar Alcuaz to distinguish himself from two other Aguilars who are also members of the La Punalada Group.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Federico Aguilar Alcuaz</strong> (1932-2011)<br /><em>Quatro Marias (Tres Marias Series)</em><br />signed and dated 1986 (upper right)<br />oil on canvas<br />28&rdquo; x 34&rdquo; (71 cm x 86 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":1000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":1168000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39728,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/65/93/lot/94.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":93,"next":95,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}