{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47420,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"174","artist":"Rafael Enriquez y Villanueva (1850 - 1937)","title":"La Bailaora (The Flamenco Dancer)","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1881 (upper left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24\" x 20\" (61 cm x 51 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Artcurial, Sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Art, France, 23 September 2023, Lot 528, titled Portrait de Jeune Femme à la Rose (Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rose)","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Like Luna and Hidalgo, Rafael Enriquez was among the ilustrados who found their metier in Madrid and Paris. Born in Naga, then called Nueva Caceres, he would next take the familiar route of study at the Ateneo Municipal and then the Universidad de Santo Tomas, both in Manila. He also enrolled in the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura, then under the direction of Don Agustin Saez, where he had his first artistic training, according to the eminent biographer of Filipino men of art and science, E.A. Manuel.
He would next sail to Spain to study law and like Hidalgo, once he had discharged his familial duties would enter the world of fine arts at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid.
He would, however, find the French capital and its more libertarian atmosphere more conducive to his art.
In 1879 he would move to Paris and stay for the next eight years, the same period in which this work at hand was created.
Enriquez would become a noted portraitist and his sitters would include European aristocracy such as the Marques de Rivera, the Marques del Togo del Valle as well as the Duque de Banns, in no small part as a result of marrying into their circle. He would marry a noblewoman from Antequera, Andalucia, the daughter of the Marques de Zela.
His daughter would recall in later years that the best of his works were to be found in Europe where he lived longest and had the best commissions. This is true indeed for the work at hand, La Bailaora (The Flamenco Dancer), the portrait of a young flower of Andalucia — from his wife’s hometown — and its spring festivals or ferias, where song, dance and romance are in the air.
The dancer is dressed in the traditional black and red of the flamenco, a richly embroidered manton de Manila thrown on her shoulders. These large shawls were favored by the performers to cover their arms, their swirling long fringes accenting their movements. In her hair is the traditional gold peineta (comb) and roses. Enriquez has used the lightest hand to outline the tendrils of her hair, the red coral beads of her necklace, flushed cheeks and pretty smile. Roses are particularly Spanish symbols of the flamenco, the bullfights, the parades — and courtship. Enriquez has painted two roses, one a bud, the other in full bloom as symbols of the promise and fulfillment of love. (Lisa Guerrero Nakpil)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":800000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":800000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":961280,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46932,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/174.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":173,"next":175,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}