{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50221,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"133","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931 - 2005)","title":"Mother and Child","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2003 (upper left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"20 3/4\" x 8\" (53 cm x 20 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Finale Art File confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Ang Kiukok’s Mother and Child paintings veer away from the typicality of the artist’s works, in which human anguish and torment are explicitly evoked. In Alfredo Roces’ book Kiukok: Deconstructing Despair, Ang remarks that his “Mother and Child series expresses human love. A part of me is not angry. The Lovers theme also shows human affection.”
We see in the work at hand a lighthearted facet of Ang’s disposition. Here, the child playfully reaches out to his mother in the act of a warm embrace. The mother, in turn, cuddles her offspring in the most intimate way possible. The artist unequivocally evokes the distinct language of intimacy between the mother and her child. In a wholehearted declaration of his affinity for the maternal bond, Ang depicts motherly love as a love that transcends the metaphysical, divine and hallowed in essence. Roces writes in Kiukok: Deconstructing Despair: “Mother and child tie each other up into one interdependently intertwined knot: each needs the other.” (A.M.)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Ang Kiukok (1931 - 2005) Mother and Child signed and dated 2003 (upper left) oil on canvas 20 3/4\" x 8\" (53 cm x 20 cm)