{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50198,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"111","artist":"Julie Lluch (b. 1946)","title":"Portrait of Barbara Gonzalez","starting_price":120000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"terracotta and acrylic","size":"28\" x 19\" x 12\" (71 cm x 48 cm x 30 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"A feminist artist, Julie Lluch is a self-taught sculptor and one of the leading champions of terracotta art in the Philippines. Lluch and Gonzalez first met when the latter had just accepted the position of Vice President for Coca-Cola. While Gonzalez commissioned Lluch to create a bust of her mother, Lluch insisted on doing a feminine likeness of Gonzalez instead. “Do you want to be portrayed as a grandmother, a mother, a professional, or a woman,” Lluch asked Gonzalez, to which the latter replied, “As a woman, of course.”
“And I popped out my right breast because Julie was a woman too. I was not uncomfortable exposing myself at the sitting,” recalls Gonzalez of the moment Lluch began work on the bust.
“This bust by Julie Lluch is my tribute to myself. I had it done when I turned 44. My birthday is August 8, 1944, or 8/8/44. The year I turned 44, my birthday was 8/8/88. But that was 34 years ago,” Gonzales gleefully reminisces. (A.M.)","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":"
Julie Lluch (b. 1946) Portrait of Barbara Gonzalez terracotta and acrylic 28\" x 19\" x 12\" (71 cm x 48 cm x 30 cm)