{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":45831,"auction_id":92,"set_id":121,"lot_number":"33","artist":"Jerry Elizalde Navarro (1924 - 1999)","title":"A Foul Wind on the 11th Day of February 1986  (The Murder of Evelio Javier)","starting_price":1700000,"signed_dated":"signed, titled and dated 1991 (side and verso)","medium":"collage, industrial paints, finishers","size":"60” x 48” (152 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Metropolitan Museum of Manila","exhibited":"The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, J. Elizalde Navarro: 45 Years of the Artist's Works (Retrospective Exhibition), <br />Manila, November 1995","literature":"Reyes, Cid. J. Elizalde Navarro. Manila: The National Museum of the Philippines, 2008. Full color illustration and painting description on page 246. Listed on page 272 as “A Foul Wind on the 11th Day of February ‘86” in the artist’s “List of Artworks” (Appendix).","write_up":"Antique’s “Ninoy Aquino” A few minutes past 10 AM on February 11, 1986, just outside the provincial capitol in San Jose de Buenavista, masked assassins working for Pacificador and riding a Nissan patrol jeep opened fire at Javier, who was resting on a lawn in the plaza just in front of the capitol building. He was taking a short break from safeguarding the ballots against theft and manipulation. Javier initially sustained gunshot wounds on his left shoulder and leg. Attempting to protect civilians, the bleeding Javier ran away from the capitol while the gunmen continued firing shots. Javier sought refuge inside a comfort room owned by Leon Pe but was found and cornered by his assassins. He was shot at point-blank range, his bloodied body lying on the cold floor.<br /><br /> avier's body sustained 24 gunshot wounds. Unlike the ten Bornean datus, tyranny and death became inevitable for the outspoken critic.<br /><br /> Javier's death struck the final blow to the dictatorship. His body was flown to Manila, where a burial procession was held. Javier's body was laid in state at the Ateneo, where more than 20,000 people resoundingly voiced out their battle cries of justice for Javier and for the thousands of Filipinos who were subjected to detainment, torture, enforced disappearance, and brutal death under the regime. When Javier's body was flown back to Antique, another funeral procession was held that ran the 160-kilometer length of Panay Island and was joined by thousands of Panayanons.<br /><br /> On February 12, the Aquino campaign team released an interview with Javier that was filmed days before his death. Said the slain ex-governor, \"Every time I move around Antique, I have to play cat and mouse with the goons of Pacificador. I have to be elusive.\" A 1990 article from the Los Angeles Times also tells of a ledger detailing that Pacificador was credited to have received one million pesos from the regime in exchange for killing Javier and ensuring the win of the dictator in the province.<br /><br /> By the end of February, democracy would be restored in the Philippines, ending the two-decade conjugal dictatorship.<br /><br /> Navarro's 1991 piece is actually his second work on the murder of Javier. The first one, bearing the exact same title as the work at hand, is a 1986 acrylic on board piece, in which Navarro paints a portrait of Javier in the center surrounded by armed figures, all in a Cubist style. In the 1991 work at hand, Navarro, ever the metamorphosing artist, yields to an abstraction reminiscent of a cubist collage style in a chilling reminder of Javier's death. Red paint reminiscent of blood can be seen in the center surrounded by a chaotic convergence of cut-out and pasted canvas, as if transporting one to the harrowing setting in which Javier was cold-bloodedly murdered. A small painted slab incised with \"EVELIO\" can be found in the upper center. Is it Javier's wounded head? Or is it Navarro reminding the viewer that our nation's foundation and the freedom and liberty we enjoy right now (however little or shallow they may be) and should be struggling to defend and cultivate towards humaneness are watered by the very blood of our heroes?<br /><br /> A year after Navarro painted this work, Republic Act No. 7601, otherwise known as \"An Act Declaring February 11 Of Each Year Governor Evelio B. Javier Day, A Special NonWorking Public Holiday in the Provinces of Antique, Capiz, Aklan, and Iloilo,\" was passed on June 3, 1992. The plaza where Javier was killed is now known as the Evelio B. 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