{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":45798,"auction_id":92,"set_id":121,"lot_number":"140","artist":"Alfonso Ossorio (1916 - 1990)","title":"Untitled","starting_price":10000000,"signed_dated":"signed, dated and inscribed \"28.7.58\" (verso)","medium":"mixed media on wood panel","size":"96\" x 24\" (244 cm x 61 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE OSSORIO FAMILY COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":"Ayala Museum, Alfonso Ossorio: A Survey (1940 - 1989), Makati City,  26 February - 17 June 2018<br /> Leon Gallery, Alfonso Ossorio: Grazing Light, Corinthian Plaza, Makati City, 21  April - 12 May 2017","literature":"Rejante - Manahan, Liliane and Cid Reyes. Alfonso Ossorio: Grazing Light. Makati City: Leon Gallery, 2017. Published to accompany the exhibition \"Alfonso Ossorio: Grazing Light\" at Leon Gallery. Full-color spread on pages 44 to 45 and painting description on page 44.<br /><br />Ottmann, Klaus and Liliane Rejante-Manahan, Alfonso Ossorio: A Survey (1940 - 1989). Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Ayala Museum in 2018. Makati City: Ayala Foundation, 2018. Fullcolor illustration and painting description on page 70.","write_up":"Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock met in 1949, and since then it has been impossible to understand the artistic trajectory of one of the greatest mid to late twentieth-century artists, not to mention one of the most highly prized in our current market, without considering Ossorio.<br /><br /> Ossorio supported Pollock economically, emotionally, and in various personal ways. He welcomed Pollock frequently to his celebrated house The Creeks, which housed a magnificent art collection and his studio that he had acquired in August 1951 at Pollock’s behest. Moreover, Ossorio contributed, at least in part, to the development of Pollock’s artistic practice. Of course, the reverse also is true, and we find evidence of Pollock’s influence in Ossorio’s work. Yet, particularly in the latter years of Pollock’s career, Ossorio, the artist, would play a role in Pollock’s creative practices, as he turned once more toward some form of figurative representation.<br /><br />Among the sources that provide evidence for the connections between these two artists is the voluminous biography by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (Clarkson N. Potter, New York,1989; Pulitzer Prize, 1991). It allows us to appreciate their attachment to each other and confirms some things we already knew; namely, that Alfonso Ossorio not only financed Pollock’s artistic and personal projects but also became a close personal friend.<br /><br /> The Pollocks spent periods of time as Ossorio’s guests in his home (in the winter of 1950, for example, when Ossorio traveled to the Philippines). We know as well that on November 27, 1950, the eve of opening day at the Betty Parsons Gallery, Ossorio helped Pollock to present canvases onto supporting frames and hang paintings on the walls. At this event, too, he purchased the magnificent painting “Number 1” for $1,500. In addition, Ossorio penned an essay titled “Mon ami, Jackson Pollock” (Jackson Pollock, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1951, reprinted in French, “Mon ami Jackson Pollock,” exhibit catalogue, Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, March 7 – 31, 1952); he arranged for Pollock to exhibit in Paris in 1952; he even offered him a $200 monthly stipend to help him meet his needs. (A reproduction of the letter appears here; the original resides in the Smithsonian Institution.)<br /><br /> Jackson Pollock died as a result of an automobile accident at 10:15 p.m. on August 11, 1956. He had been driving with two female friends en route to the home of his dear friend and patron Alfonso Ossorio.<br /><br /> Several recent events have finally accorded Alfonso Ossorio, an artist with deep Filipino roots, his rightful place among the world’s giants of artistic expressionism. His work was featured in the exhibit “Angels, Demons, and Savages. Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet” (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 9 – May 12, 2013), and it appeared alongside Pollock’s work in the Whitney Museum of New York (“America is hard to see,” inaugural exhibit of the new Whitney Museum of American Art, May 1 – September 27, 2015).In 2016, Leon Gallery (Makati City, Philippines) celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of Ossorio’s birth with two exhibits devoted to his paintings.<br /><br/> Alfonso Ossorio, born in Manila on August 2, 1916, has earned a unique and fundamental place in the history of art","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":22000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":22000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":26435200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":44530,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/140.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":44880,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/140b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":44664,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/140c.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[],"prev":139,"next":141,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}