Accompanied by a certificate issued by Galerie Raphael confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Juvenal Sanso’s summers have been varied and difficult for the artist to summarize as they have encompassed his quivering tangle of reflections as he often peered down into the water when swimming in clear aquatic depths of tropical weeds and shells which actually is a result of how water has been a constant companion through the artist’s life as he used to live close to the Pasig River in Manila. This oeuvre of a bath of heat decay depicted by Sanso is the artist’s visual imagery of water combined with summer, expressing nature in his works - lolling in the water, entranced by the mirages of the brilliance of ripples leaping into life. The intricacies of the landscape vegetations and flowers have dominated the two - thirds of Sanso’s mature life where he slowly began to shed the expressionist drama of his post - war lingering images; hence, it is clearly seen in the masterpiece that it showcases a lingering dramatic vein. A Quiet Strength, as the title suggests, is Sanso’s interpretation of his summer memories; visualizing the delights of realization in one’s ambitions; the inward concentration going hand in hand with ever - glowing maturity in creative endeavors. “A varying activity,” as Sanso puts it, “of that sensuous grassy path as a more dramatic activity that may convey another aspect of a life of the grown-ups…”