{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47274,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"25","artist":"Fernando Amorsolo (1892 - 1972)","title":"Lavanderas","starting_price":7000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1966 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"34\" x 26\" (86 cm x 66 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE DELY TAMBUNTING ONGSIAKO 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":"Fernando Amorsolo’s name is synonymous with Philippine art itself. Arguably the biggest and most famous Filipino artist, his oeuvre is a view into an idyllic and nostalgic past with its sunlit pastoral landscapes and exceptional genre scenes evoking the long-forgotten glory days. On his canvases, Amorsolo’s mastery of merging his subjects with their deep physical environment in a harmonious marriage is on full display, cementing his status as a giant in art history.<br /><br />A penetrating theme of the postwar Amorsolo period is the overflowing nostalgia and a return to his golden years. The Philippines had found itself under Japanese occupation when Amorsolo was at the height of his career. He and his family lived in the Japanese-occupied Manila and he had front-row seats to the horrors of the wars. His works, while retaining their Classical-Romantic inspiration, depicted the ongoing tragedies: burning cities and women fleeing dominated his canvases. It makes sense that after the trauma of war, Amorsolo aimed to replicate the glory of his pre-war years. He painted its recurring themes and among the scenes he usually depicts is that of women washing on the river or the lavanderas, as is shown with the lot in hand.<br /><br />His 1966 Lavanderas is among many depictions of such topics. Amorsolo’s titular lavanderas are often seated next to a batya or a tub; in some instances, young children accompany their mothers. This particular piece follows the latter with a child seated beside a woman washing the laundry. The woman, brown-skinned with her black hair tied, is drawn in the typical long-limbed lithe fashion as is usual with the Amorsolo women.<br /><br /> Lavanderas also shows Amorsolo’s genius when it comes to colors and sunlight. The vibrant rays dapple over the river behind the woman, plunging the viewer right into the scene. “The full burst of Philippine sunlight which actually washes out color and produces a blinding glare, he added only as accents to bring out the nude’s form,” artist and critic Alfredo Roces notes. His talent with refraction elevates the painting to another level, his intimate knowledge of shadows and lighting transforming his work into an almost photographic memory that is profound and personal all at once.<br /><br /> Doing laundry is often seen as a banal chore but Amorsolo’s lavanderas elevate the scene to an essential activity where community convenes. It is so quintessentially Filipino and in the words of Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo: “His iconic lavanderas – youthful, graceful, and modest – represent an ideal of Filipino, not European, beauty.” (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":8000000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":8000000,"userBid":6659,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":9612800,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46969,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/25.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":24,"next":26,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}