{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47357,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"110","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"Lavandera","starting_price":1700000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1956 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"18 1/2\" x 14 1/4\" (47 cm x 36 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE CARLOS P. ROMULO COLLECTION","coa":"León Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo for confirming the authenticity of this lot.","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"By the 1950s, Fernando Amorsolo had already solidified his legacy in Philippine art. When this first decade of Amorsolo’s “twilight” years had begun to materialize itself, the venerable artist had already received the muchdeserving recognition fitting for an artist whose art and style had imprinted themselves on the nation’s collective psyche..<br /><br />In 1948, Amorsolo was accorded a one-man retrospective exhibition sponsored by no less than the influential Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) at the National Museum of the Philippines, where he mounted 60 paintings.<br /><br />Two years later, in 1950, Amorsolo would be given the privilege to participate in the Missionary Art exhibit in Rome, where two historical paintings by the maestro were showcased: “Faith Among the Ruins” and “Baptism of Rajah Humabon.”<br /><br />In 1952, Amorsolo stepped down from his post as Director at the UP School of Fine Arts after an almost two-decade steadfast supervision of one of the country’s premier artistic institutions. He would now have the opportunity to devote all his time to painting.<br /><br />In 1956, the year the work at hand titled Lavandera was painted, Amorsolo was bestowed an Award of Merit by then-President Ramon Magsaysay upon the Civic Assembly of Women of the Philippines’ (now the National Council of Women of the Philippines) recommendation.<br /><br />Even in his post-prime period, Amorsolo still steadfastly pursued and caressed Philippine sunlight as if it were his beloved wife. This pursuit is exemplified by the work at hand. Although not exuding the plein air quality of his “Golden Period” paintings, Lavandera still shows Amorsolo’s ingenious depiction of the transience of sunlight and the nuances of its varying degree of penetration amid a thick, verdant forest inhabited by towering trees, hay-like grasses, and pristine rivers and streams. Through this mastery, Amorsolo’s name has become synonymous with Philippine sunlight, the maestro from which succeeding generations of Filipino artists gained creative luminescence.<br /><br />Amorsolo’s graceful dalaga still retains her role as the protagonist—the endearing muse—in the artist’s canvas. For Amorsolo, she is a veritable reminder of a bygone era, a glorious period in which the idyllic pastoral is exalted as the sturdy foundation of the Filipino nation. The natural allure of Amorsolo’s dignified dalaga may have the eminent Carlos P. Romulo to this work. He became the Filipino nation’s resonating voice in the often-turbulent international arena. After all, Romulo was a man who, in his own right, embodied that same sheer refinement in the same veins as Amorsolo’s dalaga and the maestro himself. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":3600000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":3600000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":4325760,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":47047,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/110.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":109,"next":111,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}