{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47338,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"88","artist":"Romeo Tabuena (1921- 2015)","title":"Pueblo en la Luz de la Luna (Village In The Moonlight)","starting_price":700000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1962 (lower right)","medium":"oil on masonite board","size":"36\" x 40\" (91 cm x 102 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM THE DON EUGENIO “GENY” LOPEZ JR. COLLECTION","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Romeo Tabuena’s Pueblo en la Luz de la Luna (translating to Village in the Moonlight from Spanish) shows the artist’s two sources of inspiration: his home country the Philippines and his chosen city of Allende, Mexico.<br /><br />Tabuena’s journey to Mexico did not immediately lead him to the country. After studying in the Philippines, his academic training first led him to New York in 1952 under American artist Will Barnet before it called him to Paris in 1954 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière<br /><br />His sojourn to Mexico in 1955 was meant to be a usual study trip like his New York and Paris one. However, when he arrived at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Tabuena immediately fell in love with the artistic town. Here he stayed for the rest of his life, raising a family with his wife Nina.<br /><br />However, despite residing on the other side of the world, Tabuena did not sever his ties to the Philippines. He retained his Philippine citizenship, continuing to mount exhibitions in his home country. In 1957, he created one of his major works – Filipiniana (1957) was a mural exhibited at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C.<br /><br />Pueblo en la Luz de la Luna was created five years after Filipiniana’s creation. It still retained the sense of transparency that is typical of an early Tabuena work, airy and atmospheric that juxtaposed the blocky works he would create at the later phase of his career inspired by the aesthetic of Mexican muralists. Instead, it features a dreamlike depiction of the titular village. In jewel tones and soft interlocking cubist shapes, Tabuena’s village takes shape, shining under the vibrant moon.<br /><br />Tabuena’s oeuvre is a celebration of his Mexican and Filipino cultures. Both countries share similarities in their pasts – they both were colonies of Spain, an occupation that still retains its cultural impact in the countries today. Half a world away, Mexico and the Philippines hold a mirror to each other, both in their past and present, and this interesting crossroads fascinate Tabuena as shown by the lot in hand.<br /><br />Three years after Tabuena painted Pueblo en la Luz de la Luna, he reached another milestone in his career as he stood as the official Filipino artist and art commissioner from the Philippines in the Eighth São Paulo Art Biennial. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":2600000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2600000,"userBid":7890,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":3124160,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":47030,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/88.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":87,"next":89,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}