Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

At the height of his artistic career, Isidro Ancheta's beautiful renderings of idyllic rural and city life managed to capture the hearts and minds of the Filipino people. It is often said that, at the time, no self-respecting institution was complete without one of Ancheta's masterpieces adorning their walls. A man of simple, generous impulses, his canvases are as unassuming as the artist. His paintings are sensitively adjusted for the slightest change of value, the interplay between light and dark areas is overwhelmed by the presence of the sky or natural elements. The appealing nature of his work lends itself to its nostalgic and timeless quality—a testament to our desire to live a picturesque and pastoral life.