Charito Bitanga Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Charito Bitanga Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 30, 2024
Rosario Bitanga (b. 1934) - River Moon
Est: ₱240,000 - ₱312,000
River Moon signed and dated 2022 (lower right and verso) oil on canvas 24" x 36" (61 cm x 91 cm) EXHIBITED : Leon Gallery, Rosario Bitanga: Likha (Solo Exhibition) G/F Corinthian Plaza, Makati, 27 September - 11 October 2022 Among the first woman abstractionists in the country, Rosario Bitanga’s virtuoso needs no introduction. As evidenced by her 2022 River Moon, her abstractions toe the line between figurative and abstract, with her penchant for motion still evident as the moonlight seems to ripple over the river despite the rigidity of the shapes she employed. Perhaps a leftover of her years as a pianist, there is a sense of fluidity to this piece that suggests musicality amidst the harsh edges of the piece, as befits an iconic Filipino abstractionist. (Hannah Valiente)
Leon Gallery
Jul. 27, 2024
Rosario Bitanga (1934 - 2024)
Est: ₱85,000 - ₱110,500
Davis California signed and dated 1972 (lower right) oil on canvas 12" x 8 1/2" (30 cm x 22 cm)
Leon Gallery
Jul. 27, 2024
Rosario Bitanga (1934 - 2024)
Est: ₱150,000 - ₱195,000
Brush signed and dated 2023 (lower right and verso) oil on canvas 24" x 24" (61 cm x 61 cm)
Leon Gallery
Mar. 09, 2024
Rosario Bitanga (b. 1934) - Composition in Green
Est: ₱180,000 - ₱234,000
PROPERTY FROM THE PAUL BLANCO ZAFARALLA COLLECTION Composition in Green signed and dated 1982 (lower right) oil on canvas 20" x 18" (51 cm x 46 cm) PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist WRITE UP: One of the foremost Filipina abstractionists, Rosario "Charito" Bitanga’s highly choreographed canvases reveal her natural predisposition for a highly intuitive work. Graceful and harmonious, her oeuvre features her intuitive and intimate relationship with color, her brilliant composition, and her musical arrangement of lines. Her 1982 Composition in Green shows the dynamism that characterizes her body of work: she utilized various shades of green and broad sweeping strokes to depict a relaxing image. Green is a color that represents nature, emphasizing its restful nature, and Bitanga, a graduate of the isolated and forested Cranbrook Academy of Art, perfectly encapsulates the peace evoked when one spends time with their environment. (Hannah Valiente)
Leon Gallery
Jun. 11, 2022
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934)
Est: ₱220,000 - ₱286,000
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934) Uptown, Downtown signed and dated 1959 (lower right) oil on canvas 32" x 24" (81 cm x 61 cm) EXHIBITED Rackham Amphitheatre Building University of Michigan, Invitational Regional Art Exhibition, Michigan, 1959 LITERATURE Reyes, Cid. Living for Art: R. Bitanga. Larawan Book Publishing. Manila. 2006. Page 39 with a full-color illustration on page 35. In September 1959, Charito Bitanga, then a 24-year-old recent Fine Arts graduate from UST, arrived in Michigan to enroll at the Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts, one of the leading American graduate schools for architecture, art, and design. During her academic stay at Cranbrook, Bitanga slowly abandoned the representational approach to art she had learned at UST. At the academy, the leading American abstractionists of that time became her professors. One was Fred Mitchell, the primary influence on Bitanga's transition to abstraction through his encouragement of finding one's identity in painting. It was also Mitchell who immediately saw Bitanga's artistic flair in the mentioned style. Another professor, Jack Madson, induced in Bitanga an appreciation for the potency and expressiveness of linear forms. Madson's influence is discernible in this 1959 piece by Bitanga. In Living for Art: R. Bitanga, Cid Reyes vividly describes the work at hand: "A 1959 work, Uptown, Downtown, reminds the viewer of the impact of Professor Madson's influence. Inspired by a trip to New York, Bitanga, filled with the exuberance of a hectic trip to the city that never sleeps, made explicit the stimulus of motion. The careening cars, the intertwining turnpikes, and more importantly, the internal, emotional impulse stirred by an observed scene of speeding dynamics. But already evident is the controlled discipline that allows the artist to render motion without being overpowered by the rhythmic, multidirectional flow of visual energies.” Uptown, Downtown would be chosen as one of the featured works in the Invitational Regional Art Exhibition at the University of Michigan in 1959. (A.M.)
Leon Gallery
Apr. 23, 2022
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934) - Carabao Wading Happiness is the Pleasure of Water
Est: ₱30,000 - ₱39,000
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934) Carabao Wading Happiness is the Pleasure of Water dated 1997 terracotta and resin 7” x 12” x 6” (18 cm x 30 cm x 15 cm)
Leon Gallery
Mar. 05, 2022
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934) - a) Reflections on Serendipity b) Reflections on Quiescence
Est: ₱100,000 - ₱130,000
a) Reflections on Serendipity b) Reflections on Quiescence a) signed and dated 2013 (lower right and ve rso) b) signed and dated 2013 (lowe r right and ve rso) oil on canvas a) 16" x 16" (41 cm x 41 cm) b) 16" x 16" (41 cm x 41 cm) PROVENANCE Artist's Collection In Charito Bitanga's works, a convergence of factors brought an aesthetic reinvigoration into reality. What became central to her art was the concept of motion in a two pre-dimensional medium. Motion serves as the swaying imperative in her mature art. Bitanga accepted the fact that she was indeed working in a modified form of futurism - lyrical, graceful rhythmic. She retained the augustness of shape and agility of line. In the pursuit of motion as the animating force of her paintings, Bitanga’s art took its own propulsion and drove her to a chapter of artmaking that can only be described as flaring, jubilant, analytic, but in a way that was always controlled and disciplined.
Leon Gallery
Dec. 04, 2021
Rosario Bitanga (b. 1934) Arachnid
Est: ₱300,000 - ₱390,000
Rosario Bitanga (b. 1934) Arachnid signed and dated 1984 (lower right) oil on canvas 20" x 24" (51 cm x 61 cm) PROVENANCE Artist's collection LITERATURE Duldulao, Manuel D. Twentieth Century Filipino Artists, Volume I. Legacy Publishers. Quezon City. 1995. Color Illustration. p. 156 Rosario Edralin-De Lara Bitanga would be one of the youngest members of the Art Association of the Philippines, joining their ranks when she was just 18 in 1952. She would take art lessons from Galo B. Ocampo and Arturo Luz; and would finally graduate with a degree in fine arts from UST, despite the initial objections of her parents. Bitanga would forge on, having become a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Gallery with Manuel Rodriguez, Sr. She would take her masters at the Cranbrook Academy and would be recognized as one of the key woman abstract artists in the country. Manuel Duldulao has described her, in fact, as “the first female abstract artist in the Philippines.” The start of the eighties marked the dynamic efflorescence of the art of Bitanga. A convergence of factors brought this aesthetic reinvigoration into reality. What became central to Bitanga’s art was the concept of motion in a two pre-dimensional medium. Motion serves as the swaying imperative in her mature art. Bitanga accepted the fact that she was indeed working in a modified form of futurism - lyrical, graceful rhythmic. She retained the augustness of shape and agility of line as seen on this masterpiece titled Arachnid, depicting the majesticity of what seems to be a spider’s web.She always challenged herself on her ability to reduce actual realities to the barest essentials of an element into the hues that comprise visual art: lines, enclosed masses, hues that move in her philosophy of modified futurism or movement, and design, while preserving the identity of the subject. Even though presently retired, Bitanga continues to paint and has always injected new values in her works.
Leon Gallery
Oct. 16, 2021
Rosario “Charito” Bitanga (b. 1934) Avolare III
Est: ₱250,000 - ₱325,000
Rosario “Charito” Bitanga (b. 1934) Avolare III signed and dated 2019 (lower right) acrylic on canvas 24” x 30” (61 cm x 76 cm)
Leon Gallery
Sep. 11, 2021
Rosario "Charito" Bitanga(b. 1934) Droves
Est: ₱300,000 - ₱390,000
Rosario "Charito" Bitanga (b. 1934) Droves signed and dated 1985 (lower right) oil on canvas 26" x 36" (66 cm x 91 cm) P 300,000 literature Reyes, Cid. Living for Art R. Bitanga. Larawan Book Publishing and Rosario Bitanga Peralta, Manila. 2006. p.61 The start of the eighties marked the dynamic efflorescence of the art of Bitanga. A convergence of factors brought this aesthetic reinvigoration into reality. What became central to Bitanga’s art was the concept of motion in a two pre-dimensional medium. Motion serves as the swaying imperative in her mature art. Bitanga accepted the fact that she was indeed working in a modified form of futurism - lyrical, graceful rhythmic. She retained the augustness of shape and agility of line. In the pursuit of motion as the animating force of her paintings, Bitanga’s art took its own propulsion and drove her to a chapter of artmaking that can only be described as flaring, jubilant, analytic, but in a way that was always controlled and disciplined.
Leon Gallery
Jan. 18, 2020
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934) - Houses and Trees
Est: ₱8,000 - ₱10,400
Charito Bitanga (b. 1934) Houses and Trees signed and dated 1999 (lower right) pen and ink on paper 14 1/2” x 11 1/2” (37 cm x 29 cm)
Leon Gallery
Apr. 27, 2018
Charito Bitanga (0000)
Est: ₱12,000 - ₱15,600
Charito Bitanga (0000) Untitled signed and dated 1992 (lower right) oil on canvas 9 1/2” x 13” (24 cm x 33 cm)
Leon Gallery