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    • Simon Flores y de la Rosa (1839 - 1904) - Nuestra Señora de la Paloma
      Dec. 02, 2023

      Simon Flores y de la Rosa (1839 - 1904) - Nuestra Señora de la Paloma

      Est: ₱500,000 - ₱650,000

      PROPERTY FROM THE DON J. ANTONIO ARANETA COLLECTION Nuestra Señora de la Paloma oil on wood 26” x 19” (66 cm x 48 cm) LITERATURE Araneta, Antonio S., ed., 1030 R. Hidalgo: Volume II, Legacy in Art. Manila: Mara, Inc., 1986. Full-color photograph and painting description on page 144. WRITE UPSimon Flores y de la Rosa came from a line of artists from the ancient town of Balayan, Batangas that would come to Manila to seek their fortune. His family would settle in the district of Paco, among what appears to be a busy artistic community that included Juan Arzeo and Flores’ uncles. Flores would soon become sought after for his exceptional portraits, renowned for the translucent realism of the garments they wore. Each stitch of the glorious embroidery, each pearl and diamond of the wearer’s jewelry, these were all brought to life by the magic of his paintbrush. Simon’s attention to the minutest of details would be rewarded : He would be the first Filipino to win an international prize for the work ‘La Music del Pueblo (The Music of the Town)’ at the Philadelphia Universal Exposition of 1876. It would be yet another family tradition carried on by later generations. The work at hand is a magnificent rendition of Our Lady, the Virgin Mary. She is, in true Flores style, resplendent in a double-strand diamond necklace; a single dangling earring edged in fine pearls is seen gilding her profile. The blouse is edged in fine lace and her blue veil covered in gold thread. She is wreathed in the flowers of love and purity. (Lisa G. Nakpil)

      Leon Gallery
    • Simon Flores y de la Rosa (1839 - 1904) - Portrait of Senora Doña Anacleta Miranda Y Manalo De Angeles
      Dec. 02, 2023

      Simon Flores y de la Rosa (1839 - 1904) - Portrait of Senora Doña Anacleta Miranda Y Manalo De Angeles

      Est: ₱400,000 - ₱520,000

      PROPERTY FROM A VERY DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR Portrait of Senora Doña Anacleta Miranda Y Manalo De Angeles signed (lower right) ca. 1890 graphite on paper Artwork: 23 1/2” x 17” (60cm x 43cm) With Frame: H: 32 1/2” x W: 26” x L: 4 1/2” (83 cm x 66 cm x 11 cm) PROVENANCE: Angeles–David family of Bacolor, Pampanga Acquired from the above from the present owner WRITE UPPortrait of an Hacendera of Old Bacolor, Pampanga by AUGUSTO MARCELINO REYES GONZALEZ III The lady in the charcoal sketch looks intently at the artist. Her eyes are kind but bothered. She was once a comely woman, but Age has thinned her hair, furrowed her eyebrows, dragged down and bagged her eyes, sunk her cheeks, shrunk her lips, sagged her chin, and wrinkled her neck, and all that decline the artist still sought to capture. She is in her forties and has already lived much of her life. She is a widow, her children have lost their father. Quo vadis? Where does she go from here? She is a woman of means: she wears an embroidered “nipis” “panuelo” and “camisa” as well as a gold “rosario” (“tamborin” necklace) under her “panuelo,” “criolla” style “aretes” earrings, an “alfiler” pin to secure her “panuelo,” and definitely a gold and tortoiseshell “peineta,” although unseen, to keep her hair in place. “Miniaturismo”: every bit of her is rendered by the artist in painstaking detail --- hair, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, ears, mouth, chin, and neck. Her whole life as seen on her face has been depicted faithfully by the artist --- with all its joys and sadness, happiness and trials, triumphs and failures. The lady knows what it is like to go to hell and back. According to Mr Gino Gonzales (top production designer, CCP educator, foremost scholar and researcher on Filipiniana dress, Tisch School NYU scholar, protégé of National Artist for Theater and Design Salvador Bernal), the “panuelo” of the lady’s “traje de mestiza” is in the style of the 1890s as it is already slightly away from the neck and it has two crevices or dimples on either side, with a dropped shoulder line. That differentiates it from the 1880s or even 1870s “panuelos” which are worn closer to the neck and the two end points meet, and the embroidery patterns are coordinated with the camisa as “ternos bordados” (as in the 1870s portraits of Agueda and Dolores Paterno by Justiniano Asuncion). “Impung Cleta.” At the time of its deaccession by the Angeles–David family in barrio San Vicente, Bacolor, her full name was already lost to the current generation; nobody knew her identity anymore. However, the story persisted that she was an independent, intrepid, and strong–willed lady. Obviously, she married because she had descendants as “Impung Cleta.” There was even a quiet yarn: there was a lady in the family, not necessarily Impung Cleta, who had a lifelong but childless love affair with one of the most prominent married hacenderos of Bacolor town. The hacendero and his legal wife were depicted in bust–sized oil portraits by a famous painter, while the lady was presented with a smaller portrait, also by the famous painter, in another medium. The ages–old yarn cannot be verified. Fortuitously, socially popular Buyson–Angeles grandson Dr Tadeo Buyson Gonzales (“Taddy”) remembered Dona Anacleta to be his mother Emiliana’s (aka “Diding’s”) maternal grandmother. It turned out that Dona Anacleta Miranda y Manalo de Angeles was actually the maternal grandmother of the exquisite Buyson sisters who were Bacolor’s foremost socialites for much of the 1900s (Bacolor’s version of the Cushing Sisters of Boston, Massachussetts --- pretty, intelligent, and married well): fashion icon “La Suprema” Josefina Buyson–Eusebio (“Pitang”), Ambassador Carmen Buyson (“Mameng”), Luz Buyson–Gomez (“Lucing”), Atty Emiliana Buyson– Gonzales (“Diding”), Asuncion Buyson–de la Cruz (“Cion”), and Pilar Buyson–Villarama (“Pilar”). Dr Tadeo Buyson Gonzales’ recollections are all reliable and verifiable.

      Leon Gallery
    • Simon Flores (1839 - 1902) a) Academic b) Untitled
      Oct. 16, 2021

      Simon Flores (1839 - 1902) a) Academic b) Untitled

      Est: ₱50,000 - ₱65,000

      Simon Flores (1839 - 1902) a) Academic signed (upper left) graphite on paper authenticated by Ramon Villegas 7” x 10 1/2” (18 cm x 27 cm) b) Untitled signed (lower right) graphite on paper authenticated by Ramon Villegas 7” x 10 1/2” (18 cm x 27 cm)

      Leon Gallery
    • SIMON FLORES (1839 - 1902)
      Sep. 21, 2019

      SIMON FLORES (1839 - 1902)

      Est: ₱4,500,000 - ₱5,000,000

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      Salcedo Auctions
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