{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50093,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"3","artist":"Ramon Orlina (b. 1944)","title":"Ecstasy II","starting_price":1500000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2009 (bottom)","medium":"carved amber crystal","size":"13 1/2\" x 7 1/2\" x 6 1/2\" (35 cm x 20 cm x 17 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"In a 2016 Inquirer article titled “Orlina draws optimal light from optical glass,” Cid Reyes celebrates the genius of Orlina's rendition of the female figure. He writes: \"Thus, for instance, the female figure the sculptor brings to a full flowering via a more realistic rendition that delineates the contour of the female breasts and buttocks. But the feminine form itself can proceed without any overt reference to the female body. A master of the curvilinear form, Orlina can articulate the female form by the mere virtue of a series of sleek undulating lines, with all the eroticism sublimated within the energy and fluidity of the line.\"
Art critic Eric Torres writes: \"The female breast Orlina exhorts is no mere object of voyeuristic prurience. [It is] a hymn to every woman generously endowed by nature. It is also a salute to the curve and the sphere as with an eye to perfection of form and finish. Orlina goes beyond the sensuous in the metaphysical.\"","lot_group":"SCULPTURE","lot_details_html":"
Ramon Orlina (b. 1944) Ecstasy II signed and dated 2009 (bottom) carved amber crystal 13 1/2\" x 7 1/2\" x 6 1/2\" (35 cm x 20 cm x 17 cm)