Placed together and crowding near the bottom of the canvas, a rich harvest of fish and crustacean appears true to touch in this succulent work by Federico Aguilar Alcuaz. The sea, which is rendered in soft focus along with the sky billowing with clouds, yields an embarrassment of riches. In its plenitude, the painting is a celebration of the generosity of the waters surrounding the archipelago. Painted in 1951, the work maybe a far-cry from the cubist approach that the master would adopt years later, but it proves that his hard-earned abstraction has a basis in figuration.
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Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (1932-2011)
Still Life
signed and dated 1951 (lower right)
oil on canvas
25” x 38” (64 cm x 97 cm)
SOLD: PHP 525,600
Provenance: A gift from Rita Tan to the present owner