This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Josefa Joya-Baldovino confirming the authenticity of this lot.

ABOUT THE WORK

1991’s “Mother and Children” is one of Joya’s occasional forays into his figurative cum genre roots. Joya’s art began quite conventionally with his studies at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts. His approach — a quiet, homegrown yet refined evocation of motherhood, contrasting with his powerful abstract impastos of the past. At the UP he was exposed to the paintings of Fernando Amorsolo. Among his other early influences were Vicente Manansala and Anita Magsaysay-Ho. His first works were mostly representational. Joya was quoted in 1978: “The figure- the Filipino people in particular, remains central to my thinking. I do not claim to explode the myth about abstract artists as being escapists and with marginal drawing skills. Neither will I also attempt their defense.... figure drawings occupy me privately in noting an imaginary visual diary.”