{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":46136,"auction_id":94,"set_id":123,"lot_number":"203","artist":"Hernando R. Ocampo (1911 - 1978)","title":"Abstraction 60","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1976 (lower left)","medium":"watercolor on paper","size":"27 1/2\" x 20\" (70 cm x 51 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"A gift from the artist to the present owner","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Abstraction 60 comes from Hernando R. Ocampo's most coveted period and the final one in his prolific career: the \"Visual Melody Period\" of 1968 to 1978. It is the same period that produced Ocampo's magnum opus and what he considered the \"full-flowering\" of his \"Visual Melody Period\": the iconic \"Genesis\" (1968) that would eventually be transformed into a monumental tapestry for the main stage curtain of the CCP Main Theater (Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo).<br /><br />In a May 1972 interview with Cid Reyes and published in Conversations on Philippine Art, Ocampo described his \"Visual Melody Period\" as \"approximating the properties of music,\" approaching his paintings \"as if they were chamber music, which, I suppose, one can consider \"pure music.\"<br /><br  />Ocampo's \"Visual Melody Period\" also coincided with a string of venerable honors bestowed upon the artist: the 1969 \"Patnubay ng Sining,\" \"Araw ng Maynila Award,\" the 1976 \"Diwa ng Lahi,\" (the highest cultural award of the Araw ng Maynila festivities), and the 1977 Caloocan City \"Outstanding Citizen Award.\"<br /><br />Abstraction 60 also represents Ocampo's \"reawakened interest in watercolor,\" as Angel G. de Jesus, his biographer, notes (in the monograph H.R. Ocampo: The Artist as Filipino) of one of the distinctive characteristics of the artist's \"Visual Melody Period.\" Ocampo had explored watercolor painting as early as 1945 when he was incarcerated in Muntinlupa by the American Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) on false grounds of collaboration with the Japanese forces during World War II. Ocampo's return to watercolor represents not only a reawakening in the medium but a healing from the traumas of the past.<br /><br />In the work at hand, blazing oranges, fiery reds, and earthy browns take center stage, emphasizing Ocampo's preference for warm colors. Moreover, Ocampo's warm, vivid palette gives heightened prominence to the sinuous, round-like forms that evoke organic shapes. These shapes singlehandedly summarize the essence of Ocampo's \"Visual Melody Period\": living, breathing spaces that harmoniously collide with each other in delicate magnificence. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":700000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":700000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":841120,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":45908,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/94/123/lot/203.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":202,"next":204,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}