Leon Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo for confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

The English painter Constable once wrote: “The sky is the source of light in nature, and governs everything.” Amorsolo painted a large number of cloudy skies filled with the rufescent light of the sun. Amorsolo’s alluring and nostalgic horizons exhibit a faculty for portraying the fleeting nuances of sunrise and sunset. In his luminescent 1927 oil on canvas work, Amorsolo manages to capture the fleeting beauty of nature. Amorsolo's choice of color was an attempt to fully form and shape the different types of clouds so that he could ring greater verisimilitude to his finished paintings. The huts appear elegantly flat as much as they are three dimensional, and Amorsolo has lavished great care on the picture. While the cool deep greens of the trees and the rich browns of the riverbanks stand out sharply against a sky suffused with flaming red clouds in the distance, the same clouds are reflected on the water in the foreground, a breathtaking soft morning light illuminating the river. His brushstrokes, though too broad to be strictly speaking descriptive, provide visual equivalents of natural objects and the feel of weather effects which make an impact on the spectator as though they had been executed with immediacy.