{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50201,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"109","artist":"Federico Aguilar-Alcuaz (1932 - 2011)","title":"Portrait of Barbara Gonzalez","starting_price":180000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1975 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"32\"x26\"(81cmx66cm)","property":null,"coa":"Leon Gallery wishes to thank Mr. Christian Aguilar for confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Federico Aguilar Alcuaz and Barbara Gonzalez’s friendship has a fascinating origin story. The two first met around the late 1960s, when Gonzalez was being pursued” by her would-be second “husband,” Roman Cruz Jr. “He seemed to love me very much that he asked Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, later Fred to me, to do my portrait,” Gonzalez reminisces. The first portrait Alcuaz did for Gonzalez has now been lost, but according to the latter, it began her deep friendship with the eminent former.<br /><br /> Gonzalez helped Alcuaz set up his portrait exhibit of men in 1973/1974. The show featured portraits of prominent\nindividuals at that time, such as Juan Ponce Enrile and Fidel V. Ramos. “I scheduled Fred’s sittings and escorted the subjects into his suite at The Manila Hilton,” Gonzalez shares.<br /><br /> In the work at hand, Alcuaz brings out Gonzalez’s distinct feminine charm. Gonzalez considers this work her favorite among the three portraits the National Artist had created for her. In this portrait, Gonzales was nearing the twilight of her twenties and entering her thirties. “This was when my relationship with Roman Cruz, Jr. was marvelous. He commissioned so many portraits. I had three portraits by Fred. This one I liked most because it looked like me in those days—almost virginal, strangely prim and proper,” remarks Gonzalez. <br /><br />“When Fred had to do a portrait, he would call me to sit for him just to “practice,” recalls Gonzalez. “He didn’t care much about getting the face right, but he cared very much about the set-up, the landscape in the background. Would he sit her this way?” (A.M.)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Federico Aguilar-Alcuaz</strong> (1932 - 2011) <br /><em>Portrait of Barbara Gonzalez</em><br />signed and dated 1975 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />32\" x 26\" (81 cm x 66 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":360000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":360000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":420480,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":50112,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/99/131/lot/109.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":108,"next":110,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}