Accompanied by a certificate issued by Archivo 1984 confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Francesca “Keka” Enriquez is considered one of the foremost artists of her generation. As a student of Roberto Chabet in the University of the Philippines’ College of Fine Arts in the 80s, she was considered as one of the “brash kids, barely in their 20s, producing large canvases, and painting with excess and abandon, working with unprecedented bravado and scale.” She finds inspiration for her work by “looking at photographs , reading magazines, visiting galleries rounds, painting continuously, and discovering processes.” She is influenced early in her career “ by neo-expressionist painters Francesco Clemente, Georg Baselitz and Longo; and in recent years by Austrian artist Luc Tuymans, and German artists Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Kippenberger.“ As an intuitive painter, her emotions are affected by color. She is partial to red because of its warmth. Enriquez is a 1994 Thirteen Artists Awardee of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She has a graduate degree in Fine Arts from Norwich University in California under a UNESCO grant. She has exhibited internationally in the United States, Canada, Australia and Malaysia. (Jerome Gomez)