{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":45800,"auction_id":92,"set_id":121,"lot_number":"142","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"Bamboo Bridge over a River","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1931 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"20 1/2\" x 24 3/4\" (52 cm x 63 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The Amorsolo landscape is a world filled with the immaculate serenity of the artist's pastoral motherland—made much more special when painted during the height of the artist's creative powers in the 1920s and the 1930s, his own Golden Age.
Bamboo Bridge Over A River, painted in 1931, is a memento from the artist's period of high success exemplified by his landmark participation at the 1931 Paris Exposition, in which he exhibited his three large panels, each representing Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It was only the Philippines' second participation in a Parisian exposition in a city once honored as the global art capital. The French newspaper Le Petit Journal reported that the monumental paintings of Amorsolo and his uncle Fabian de la Rosa, who also participated in the exposition, \"have managed to render with as much simplicity as talent.\"
Amorsolo and De la Rosa became heirs to the international prestige that Luna and Hidalgo had earlier reached at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, also in Paris.
Riding high on this well-deserved triumph, Amorsolo went on to create paintings of peace and quiet evocative of man living in harmony with nature. This opened an endless stream of consciousness for both his benevolent disposition in life and the promising milieu of his period, marked by a nation's hopeful transition to sovereignty that would materialize with the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935, or four years after this work. After all, painting was both Amorsolo's source of sustenance for his family and his creative catharsis amid an ecstatic atmosphere.
Amorsolo was known for his sketching and on-the-spot painting sessions in the nearby countryside environs of Manila. One can have an idea about the locale from which Amorsolo based this scene. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo recounted in the family memoirs that her father would frequent Marilao, Santa Maria, and Bocaue in Bulacan, sketching the idyllic streams and vast fields of the rural towns. She further mentioned that her father also \"had his own banca then and used to go boating along the rivers in Quezon City, San Juan, and Pasig.\"
Bamboo Bridge Over A River captures Amorsolo's confident dexterity and optimism at the height of his \"Golden Period.\" Amorsolo's fine brushstrokes mirror the serenity exuded by the scenery. The work is a testament to Amorsolo prospering in both his profession and his profound sense of fulfillment in his personal expressions of the simple joys of countryside living amid the changing times. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":7500000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":7500000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":9012000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":44531,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/142.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":44883,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/142d.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":44882,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/142c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":44881,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/92/121/lot/142b.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":141,"next":143,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}