Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Known for the empowering of women through her strong depiction of the rustic Filipina, Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s art has become highly regarded. In this work from 1969, Anita depicts women surrounded by baskets, set firmly on the ground, strong and serene. Mrs. Ho’s female figures have been projected from the painter’s poetic inner eye in poses of arrested motion, motion-stilled in space and timelessness; their lean lines offset the soft curves of nets or bilaos, or baskets, or pans; they are shy, different, modest, brown, Philippine and Oriental; they are deep wells, unfathomable, enigmatic, eternal riddles. She randomly spattered her canvases with delicately controlled ink blots which suggested rock formations, vegetation or waves in the sea.