PROPERTY FROM THE PRISCILLA L. CHIONGBIAN COLLECTION

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

“Watercolor is one of my favorite media. [The] beauty of watercolor [is that] it demands you to control it. It is difficult if you allow it to control you.” Vicente Manansala (as recalled by Isabel A. Nazareno’s Discovering Manansala) has always been taken with watercolors. A difficult medium for some, watercolor is a favored medium for the maestro, as evidenced by this Landscape. Depicting a hazy bright sunny afternoon, the layering ability of watercolors gave the image a soft image, making this piece, like many of his watercolor paintings, among the best the National artist has to offer. (Hannah Valiente)