This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by the artist’s
estate confirming the authenticity of this lot

Exhibited: Literature:
Guillermo, Alice. Diosdado Magno Lorenzo: Art Rebel to Legend.
Philippine-Italian Association and Tantoco-Rustia Foundation.
Makati City. 2009. p. 172.

ABOUT THE WORK

One of the Thirteen Moderns in Philippine Art, Diosdado Lorenzo’s vision as an artist encapsulated art as a timeless form. For him, a painting could fix a scene in someone’s memory and a masterpiece could be a path to immortality. His art is highly esteemed for the masterful impasto technique, his eye for warm, striking hues, and the delicately flicked brushstrokes. According to him, he was attracted to Van Gogh’s strength of vision, the intensity of his colors, and the sincerity of his art. Lorenzo produced mainly portraits of folk people in the countryside. In her book “Diosdado Magno Lorenzo – Art Rebel to Legend”, art critic Alice Guillermo wrote the following: “In the mid-seventies, many of his portraits were of young women and girls mending clothes, reading with an air of concentration, their figures focused on their work. Perhaps the artist was drawn to these quiet activities because the women subjects hinted at an interior self, an ability to focus on a particular activity, as well as to make continual small choices and to initiate an interactive engagement with one’s work.”