Cesar Legaspi “Games of Three” 1972 on Canvas Size: 45″ x 28.5″
₱70,000.00
Part of Cesar Legaspi’s personal iconography can be characterized by the dynamic and complex compositions his subjects are painted in. Figures are pressed close into the space that breathes life into the work. The artist’s focus on texture and use of warm colors uses a meticulous technique of dabbing paint on the canvas with a palette knife, a method he had mastered in the early 70s.
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