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Vicente “Enteng” Manansala “Mother & Child” 1966 on Canvas Size: 37.5″ x 29″ ₱60,000.00
In Mother and Child (1966), Vicente Manansala highlights the soft, feminine curve of the mother’s neck and shoulders. The mother is portrayed as gazing down towards her child, displaying the protective instinct a mother has for her baby. Only traces of the child are seen, such as his tiny foot and a glimpse of his forehead. By drawing away from merely representing a face for these subjects, Manansala explores the more fundamental characteristics of this distinct relationship such as tenderness, protectiveness, and nurture.The Cubist aspect of Manansala’s work rests largely on the geometric facetting of forms and in the shifting and overlapping of planes. Yet his facets and planes are broader than in original Cubism as they bring out larger rhythms.
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Vicente “Enteng” Manansala “Untitled” on Canvas Size: 21.3” x 28” ₱35,000.00
Vicente Manansala was an excellent draftsman. His technical proficiency in drawing enabled him to experiment and perfect his style of Cubism even as he worked with his recurring motifs of a mother and child, families, still-life, vendors, workers, and beggars, landscapes, and religious themes. Manansala seemingly formed a mystical bond with the natural world that despite the fragmentation and distortion of reality that would come out of his works, the imagery and visual motifs of his work remained grounded with objectivity.
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Romulo Olazo “Untitled” 1974 on Canvas Size: 30″ x 30″ ₱50,000.00
The Diaphanous series by Romulo Olazo is considered as one of his most notable works. The paintings are done through the process of overlapping layers of paint scraped on canvas developed from a collagraph technique in printmaking. The series seeks to explore the behavior of light in its purest state, each curvilinear shape possessing its unique sensuous experience. While Untitled (1974) is not distinctively part of the Diaphanous series, this artwork displays Olazo’s foray into deeper colors like purple and how it would behave with different tonal qualities.
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Juvenal Sanso “Icaro y los Papalotes” 1970 on Giclee Size: 30″ x 20.5″ ₱45,000.00
Spanish-born painter Juvenal Sansò grew up and studied in Manila. His surreal landscapes transport the viewer to a strange, desolate place that feels familiar but not quite–like hazy memories from another life. Icaro y los Papalotes (1970) translates to “Icarus and the Kites.” The rubble stones on the foreground of the painting is stylistically similar to Sansò’s more popular works such as the “Brittany” and “Barong-barong” series. A small form of a man on the upper right of the painting, suggesting the mythological figure, Icarus, flying above a desolate landscape. It symbolizes the insistence of hope and resilience of man against natural forces.
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Anita Magsaysay-Ho “Three Women with Basket” 1976 on Canvas Size: 30″ x 36″ ₱65,000.00
Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s subjects centered on women working in farms, fields, and marketplaces, captured in moments of labor. She depicted them with elongated necks, slanted eyes, hair wrapped in bandanas, and limbs bent at a contrapuntal form, yet despite the boldness of the figures, the gracefulness of the subjects radiated from the work. This grace stems from her meticulous technique of tidy brushwork, developed through egg tempera and layered glazes. Three Women with Baskets (1976), done in oil-on-canvas, forms part of her 25-painting “Inkblot Series” produced from the 1970s.
