This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Finale Art File confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

Literature: Roces, Alfredo, “Kiukok: Deconstructing Despair”, Mandaluyong City, 2000, fig. 344, p. 182 (illustrated)

ABOUT THE WORK

The rural subjects of Ang Kiukok, such as fishermen and farmers cannot be designated to any particular period in the chronology of his career. Ang himself stresses that they recur throughout the years since they are always a part of his life — images harking back to his childhood in Davao where fishermen casting their nets in the sea and carrying the prize back on their shoulders even universal life, and each time they come up, there is a new insight in their interpretation. These images that are supposedly more tranquil, restoring the world of familiar occupations and habits, nonetheless have a palpable and simmering power, as expressed by the taut, heavily built arms trying to haul the catch. Collectively, the arms altogether suggest the direction of powerful movement.