Aguinaldo, who by the mid 1960s had turned his back on nebulous “drips” and “flicks” (building up thick textures all over his painting by slinging pigment from a palette knife), took the road to minimalism in his sober, rational “linears”, with their wide spaces, superfine surface, and high tech gloss. This work comes in the transitional phase between his “drips and flicks” and minimalist gloss period. In 1973, Cid Reyes asked Lee Aguinaldo: How important is it to have a distinctive Philippine look in art? Lee Aguinaldo answered: “I don’t think it is really that important. The important thing is for Filipinos to create an art that can hold its own — in quality — to the art of all other countries.
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Lee Aguinaldo (1933-2007)
The Black Night
signed and dated 1964 (verso)
oil on marine plywood
36” x 36” (91 cm x 91 cm)
SOLD: PHP 3,737,600
Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Makati City