{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50131,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"42","artist":"Romulo Galicano (b. 1945)","title":"Tagaytay, Batangas","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1978 (lower right)","medium":"pastel on paper","size":"14 1/2\" x 23 1/2\" (37 cm x 60 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist \nconfirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Romulo Galicano’s art is technically academic and philosophical in approach. His oeuvres are reminiscent of the old Filipino Masters with modern sensibilities. He believes that every artist should never be a prisoner of himself and of his philosophy, reputation, success, and above all, his vanity. For Galicano, the direction of an artist should always be freedom.
The Cebu-born realist was raised in a family of artists. He studied landscape and figurative painting under his uncle, Martino Abellana. The young Galicano also further learned landscape art through direct observations of colors from nature, following Leonardo da Vinci’s advice that nature is the best teacher. A Manila Bulletin article shared that Galicano was six years old and in kindergarten when he first discovered his interest in the arts. “His teacher had colored chalks and would draw a mountain, flower, etc., and he would really be attentive while the other kids were less interested. That was when he realized he wanted to draw, to paint, that this would be his life.”
In 1979, a year after the piece at hand was made, Galicano held his 6th one-man show at the ABC Galleries, Manila. (P.I.R.)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Romulo Galicano (b. 1945) Tagaytay, Batangas signed and dated 1978 (lower right) pastel on paper 14 1/2\" x 23 1/2\" (37 cm x 60 cm)