Delight in the beauties of the Gilded Age with Orilla del río Pasig, Manila by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, a rare Philippine scene by this eloquently romantic artist. Sail on to works by the brothers Martinez: Ramon’s Market Vendor and a scene glimpsed from a forest, by Felix. Both remarkable artists from the Manila Academia. Fabian de la Rosa will not disappoint with two works, Filipina with Red Parasol and Landscape with Nipa Hut. His nephew Fernando Amorsolo who would succeed him at the UP School of Fine Arts presents Rizal’s Elias and Salome as well as landscapes from his own golden era.

Celebrate National Arts Month with a #Throwback to the legendary gallery that started it all! Founded in 1951, the Philippine Art Gallery was at the center of the flourishing Modern Art movement that defined post-war Manila. The gallery pivoted the country towards modernism by developing and exhibiting a number of talents that would eventually become pillars of Philippine Art. Featured in this selection are works from artists who can trace their roots to the support of the PAG. From H.R. Ocampo's ethereal Evensong, Manuel A. Rodriguez's Flight of Angels, Vicente Manansala’s Madonna and Nena Saguil's Composition Red to a 1963 Fernando Zobel, and an elusive Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Fruit Market, these works reflect the artists that created an iconic age.

WATCH! The country’s foremost glass sculptor Ramon Orlina tells Ces Oreña Drilon in an ANCX exclusive how he became an auction star, and why despite the demand for his sculptures he remains each piece’s principal maker, intimately familiar with every line and every angle. Eight of Mr. Orlina’s works—among which is a fantastic carved Asahi glass piece called Mt. Makiling II whose starting price is a cool P6-M—are among the highlights of tomorrow’s Leon Gallery Kingly Treasures Auction, co-presented by ANCX.

"These seemingly simple Baliuag furniture actually have very noble antecedents" - Augusto Marcelino Reyes Gonzales III Antiques Expert and Social Historian Augusto Marcelino Reyes Gonzales III walks us through this elegant Comoda de Poste from Baliuag, Bulacan. Composed of golden narra wood, Carabao bone, lanite wood, and kamagong wood inlays, this simple and timeless piece can trace its roots from the influential to the American Federal style and even the works of eighteenth-century English Sheraton cabinetmakers.

The Foundations of Two Living Masters: Danilo Dalena & Ronald Ventura Two monumental masterpieces by two of the foremost Filipino artists are in the spotlight at the León Gallery Kingly Treasures Auction. Danilo Dalena’s majestic Quiapo captures the tumult of the throng of the Feast of the Black Nazarene: A modern-day spectacle in the temper of the Spoliarium with the most number of figures to be found in a single Dalena work. Ronald Ventura's Blind Mechanism, on the other hand, was exhibited for the occasion of the prestigious Thirteen Artist awards which Ventura won that year.

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.” — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being In both life and in art, truth comes in many forms. From the architectural simplicity of Arturo Luz’ Cyclist, the unhurried harmony of Fernando Zobel's Luminosa II and Romulo Olazo’s Diaphanous A XI, Jose Joya's quietly existential piece titled Man's Life Cycle, the stillness of Lao Lianben and the splendor of F. Aguilar Alcuaz’ Night at the Marantz and to the F. Concepcion opus, let this curated selection of works not only help you experience the many truths art has to offer, but also the many ways beauty can move the soul.