Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mr. Dennis K. Legaspi confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Painted years before Cesar Legaspi started drawing and painting the subject by the scores in the company of the Saturday Group of Artists, this 1970 artwork still loosely classifies itself with the rock figurations that marked Legaspi’s early works that evolved into a stylistic signature. With its voluptuous curves—note the breast and thigh areas—this is a more relaxed, more sensual evolution that started decades earlier from a vision of the artist that concerned a struggle with the elements. In Legaspi’s Pink Nude the coloring is pale in treatment and the volume definition is looser. The overall pale treatment is a result of the artist’s exploitation of the white priming. He allows it to show through the colors in practically every square inch of the canvas where color is applied, thus a certain marmoreal quality is achieved. This relates the work to the granitic style of early paintings. Yet man or woman, Legaspi’s particular approach is to lapidify his forms because of a central allegory operating in his works: man and nature merging as one.