{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47300,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"50","artist":"Benedicto Cabrera (b. 1942)","title":"Larawan Series","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2005 (lower right)","medium":"acrylic on paper","size":"22\" x 14 1/2\" (56 cm x 37 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This is the bold statement of artist and art critic Cid Reyes in his essay “The Color of Nostalgia” in the 2002 Bencab book. From his earliest works of scavengers to his quintessential Larawan and Sabel series, Bencab’s brush depicts the deep kayumanggi skin of his Filipino subjects, the sepia of the women’s baro’t saya, the brown on the common Filipino household items all done using his “Bencab brown.”<br /><br />This “Bencab brown” as described by Reyes is present in the lot at hand. Painted a year before Bencab was conferred the highly venerable title of National Artist in 2006, the artist depicts a beloved muse – the common Filipino – in a plain camel brown background. The brown-skinned brown-haired figure wears a plain white camisa de chino and pants with their back facing the viewer. In contrast to a frontal depiction, Bencab emphasizes the back of the figure, guiding the eyes of the viewers past the canvas and into the unknown the figure peers into.<br /><br />Bencab had left the country in 1969, settling in London to raise his family before returning permanently to Baguio in 1986. These seventeen years of expatriate life brought about a homesickness that led to him rediscovering his love for his country through maps, prints, and photos he could find in flea markets.<br /><br />Thus, his works carry a certain love for his home country that is tempered with nostalgia and distance. Through the hunched figure in this work, Bencab manages to translate the uncertainty the Philippines faces as well as the yearning for a better and brighter tomorrow. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":"bencab","hp":800000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":800000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":961280,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46989,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/50.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":49,"next":51,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}