Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Galicano is a painter of tonal landscapes who is renowned especially for his small, intimate views of nature. This sweetly melancholic and ochre painting seems to occupy a borderline between everyday observation and a visionary world all Galicano’s own. A sense of liveliness is conveyed by the various tones of green, ochre and white modulating in various intensities and with effects of transparency. Galicano’s aim was to heighten and dramatize the effects of light and shade, and to achieve a more exact pictorial approximation of nature’s fleeting changes. The image is then unified by a pictorial and idyllic image of a fisherman, evoking a peaceful and serene idealized Filipino landscape.