Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Homeward Bound at Day's End Amorsolo Takes Us Home by HANNAH VALIENTE - Fernando Amorsolo is perhaps one of the most famous Filipino artists of the 20th century and beyond. A master of light and color, his compositions and landscapes have managed to capture the nostalgia of the Philippine countryside, gaining traction overseas even as early as the 1920s. This 1961 A Man Leading Bullock Carriages at Sunset was created in a year full of awards for the already decorated artist—he was awarded a diploma of honor in the field of Philippine painting from the Philippine Federation of Private Medical Practitioners, Inc., as well as a citation by the Rizal-Pro Patria Award. The painting, while occupying a similar subject matter as the rest of his oeuvre, was more somber in tone than the others. Set against the backdrop of a sunset, two carts being pulled by carabaos are awash in shadowy orange light. Perhaps the two figures are going home after a day of hard work, portraying an unofficial sequel to his famed planting rice paintings. Now, the romantic depiction of the rice cycle is no longer seen; in its stead is the silence after a backbreaking physical work, a stillness that depicts an ever-continuing cycle one must undertake, day after day and months after months. A Man Leading Bullock Carriages at Sunset portrays not just an idyllic return to the past but the quiet moments of retrospection hidden between its depths, a quality that endeared and immortalized Amorsolo for the years to come.