In Mother and Child, Emmanuel Garibay portrayed a powerful image of a woman embracing a child. The artist allowed the emotions to emanate from the face of the mother; devoiding the canvas with any other details. Garibay’s execution and emphasis with the hands of his subject is both symbolic and expressive wherein the grasp of the subject’s hands radiates warmth accompanied with the hues smeared to the canvas - perfectly exhibiting a mother’s love. Like the great master sculptor, Auguste Rodin, Garibay saw the hands as able to verbalize the emotions of the entire body where the hands became cardinal tools of expressions and are points of kindred and passing between people.
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Emmanuel Garibay (b. 1962)
Mother and Child
signed and dated 2012 (lower left)
acrylic on paper
27" x 18 3/4" (69 cm x 48 cm)
SOLD: PHP 397,120
Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist
confirming the authenticity of this lot