Accompanied by a certificate issued by Fundacion Sansó confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

J uvenal Sansó is always inspired by his environment, and the deep bond between the artist and nature is revealed in his paintings that depict surreal landscapes and seascapes. He spent his boyhood in Paco and had many beautiful memories of pleasant days swimming in the Pasig River and family outings to Montalban in Rizal. His close relationship with nature did not end there, because later in his career as an artist, he would then often visit the Brittany coast in France, and the sights that caught his eye would find their way as well onto his canvases. As observed in the lot at hand, Sansó is the kind of artist who is able to mirror his sentiments into his oeuvres. His melancholic landscape paintings portray solitary sceneries, without human presence at all. However, an existential change within the artist is reflected through the colors that seep into his compositions. According to the catalog titled After the Deluge Comes the Dawn, it first came as background hues of reds or blues for his barong-barong and baklad- inspired landscapes, and later it manifested into his sketches of Brittany, France. The New York Herald Tribune wrote in an article, “Sansó shows attractively wishful landscapes and sea-coast scenes, some of the latter, painted in the Philippines and featuring cathedral-like constructions for trapping fish at low tide.” (Isabella Romarate)