Auction 29
High Period, Natural History & Colonial Art
By Templum Fine Art Auctions
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Jul 6, 2023
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LOT 47:
STAR LOT - Large and fine "Filipino Custom Scene", Fernando Amorsolo Cueto (San Fernando de Paco, May 30, 1892 – ...
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42,500
Estimated price :
€100,000 - €120,000
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STAR LOT - Large and fine "Filipino Custom Scene", Fernando Amorsolo Cueto (San Fernando de Paco, May 30, 1892 – Quezon City, April 24, 1972), 20th century Philippine school
Signed and dated by the artist, Manila, 1959", oil on canvas, measurements: 120 x 81 cm, framed measurements: 144 x 104 cm. Fernando Amorsolo Cueto (San Fernando de Paco, May 30, 1892 – Quezon City, April 24, 1972) is considered one of the most remarkable painters the Philippines has ever had, known for his virtuosity and mastery of light and who He specialized mainly in portraiture and in the rural landscape of his country. His brother Pablo Amorsolo was also a painter. Between the years 1909 and 1914 he attended the Liceo de Manila Art School and the year of his graduation he won the school's first prize with a painting of a young couple in a garden. After graduating from this institution, he entered the School of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines, where his uncle Fabián de la Rosa worked. Among his early influences back then were the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, but much more contemporary Spanish painters such as Joaquín Sorolla and Ignacio Zuloaga. In 1916, with a scholarship from Fernando Zobel, he traveled to Spain to study at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid. Origin: Madrid family, bought directly from the Artist.
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