Leon Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo for confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Amorsolo’s art has always been famous: harmony, repose, a sense of order and the creation of an image of nature more perfect than nature itself. By the 1920s, Amorsolo had mastered the Filipino genre painting with its idyllic renditions of country life against the backdrop of the lushness of the landscape. At its best, Amorsolo’s art is a paradigm of the realist’s earthy paradise — a society in which people go about their tasks contented and in a responsive idyllic environment. He also made many outdoor studies of the Filipino countryside in an ardent endeavor to capture the light and color of what he observed. Amorsolo was not a social commentator, but an aesthete who hoped to emphasize the finer qualities of his country and the people, from the beauty of the natural environment, to the natural grace of the common people and the dignity of their life and labor. This work by Amorsolo shows the Amorsolo School at its best and freshest. The composition is simple and coherent, its management of space conveying a restful sense of depth and breadth. His mastery of space and light — the handling especially of emptiness whether at ground level or in the sky — was matched by a delicate mastery of detail, and enlivened by a charming quasi anecdotal delight In the presentation of groups of figures.