Accompanied by a certificate issued by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

A master of figure and genre painting, Romulo Galicano was born to a family of artists from Carcar, Cebu. He studied intensively under the revered Cebuano maestro Martino Abellana, his uncle. He was also under the tutelage of abstractionist Florencio Concepcion in the University of the East where he took up fine arts. His works are characterized by heightened effects of light, shade, and colors as well as a certain mesmerizing liveliness resulting from his attention to achieving pictorial approximations of nature. In Morning Scene at the Seaside, Galicano offers fine details of a rural scene of fishermen’s boats and common folk. The waves are strong, foaming and hurling ashore, and the sky gives off a forecast of rain. Also a master of evoking atmospheric effects in his works, Galicano presents an intimately poetic vision of a Philippine seascape in this sweetly melancholic piece.