Provenance: León Gallery wishes to thank the artist for confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Romulo Galicano's 1981 Landscape features the vertical elements he so often inputs in his works. Here, Galicano's tall and unbending trees are depicted in his realist style. Despite his classical background, he had been interested in abstraction. His works' vertical lines serve as a "reconciliation between opposite poles and the merging of the Subjective and the Objective—creating a new meaningful work of art." This merging of the abstract and the figurative is evident in this work. An apprentice of the Amoroslo of the South and his uncle Martino Abellana, Galicano’s works boast of remarkable technicality, a result of his private lessons with his uncle and his formal education at the University of the East. In Landscape, Galicano depicts a soft dreamy patch of woodland. The wind wafting through the air is evident in the way the leaves on the trees move. There is a sense of nostalgia in this piece, as befits the Visayan Realist Master. (Hannah Valiente)