{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47383,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"137","artist":"Justin Nuyda (1944 - 2022)","title":"Search 7515","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1975 (lower left and verso)","medium":"oil on canvas<br />","size":"38\" x 25\" (97 cm x 64 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by the heirs  of the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"There is something so intensely poetic about the landscape of abstractionist Justin Nuyda. An avid lepidopterist, Nuyda has spent his childhood and beyond exploring the Philippine forest with his father and uncles who had passed down their interest to the impressionable Nuyda. They would climb mountains, chasing down butterflies to study and collect. On the way, Nuyda would encounter the majestic beauty of the skyline from a higher altitude and the beautiful colors on a butterfly’s wings.<br /><br />“In art, there are unusual colors that just can’t go with each other but they exist in a butterfly,” says Nuyda as written by Jay Bautista in the 2017 Vision Petron FOLIO. “For example black and yellow. With a thin line of gray you can put them together. How light to dark is. You can witness that in a butterfly, most colors exist in them already.”<br /><br />That unique and natural sense of color is showcased in his 1975 Search 7515, created three years after his Thirteen Artists Award conferment. At first glance, the colored daubs and streaks remind one of the blue skies and the brown desert as far as the eye can see. It also reminds the viewers of the blue and brown shades found in his beloved butterfly’s wings.<br /><br />Nuyda’s works are a love letter to the nature he often finds himself conferred with. Through his abstractions, he finds an internal world in which his mindscapes could take place. “He paints a picture of the sights and captures the sounds within a mind that is not lost, but simply in search,” says his website. Search 7515 portrays a lovely sky that reflects the restless search undertaken by wanderers. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":47079,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/137.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":136,"next":138,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}