PROPERTY FROM THE DON EUGENIO LOPEZ JR. COLLECTION

Provenance: :
Acquired directly from the artist
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco)

Literature: : Archipelago (The International Magazine of the Philippines), Volume I, No. 2, February 1974. Full-color illustration on the cover; ‘Cover Note’ description of the artwork, page 7. Aquino, Glenna, Budji: Design Journey, Published by Reyes Publishing, Quezon City, 2019. Full color illustration, pages 140-141. Hufana, Alejandrino G., ed. Pamana 13 June 1974: A Cultural Quarterly Published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Cultural Center of the Philippines. Manila. 1974. Listed on page 19 as no. '290' under the artist's list of paintings (under Meralco) Tiongson, Nicanor G., ed. Artista ng Bayan 1991. Cultural Center of the Philippines. Manila. 1991. Listed on page 37 as no. '291' under the artist's "List of Paintings (Partial)".

ABOUT THE WORK

In the 1960s, he would represent the Philippines at the Sao Paolo Bienal and the Festival International de la Peinture in Chateau Musee in Grimaldi, France. By then he had evolved into the most influential force in Philippine art. By the time the work ‘Analogy B’ was painted, H.R. was in the thick of what he himself described as his ‘Visual Melody’ period, which would span from 1968 to his last days. His chronicler, Angel de Jesus, would say, “what he does (at this stage) is to create pure painting, something akin to chamber music.” Archipelago would put it more succinctly, “This painting entitled Analogy, by Hernando R. Ocampo is considered a rarity by those who know the artist’s preference for a wide palette of tropical colors. Only two colors, red and blue, are here delineated to their analogies, making this at least a very unusual work for this foremost Filipino colorist… This painting comes from the collection of the Manila Electric Company.” Selected by the visionary collector Don Eugenio “Geny” Lopez, Jr. Analogy B is most certainly a sophisticated opus; its reds and blues recall the grandest analogies — for H.R, was also a writer steeped in metaphors — of our Philippine flag and all the emotions of patriotism and history that stirs with it. The waving strands of the nation’s banners, alternating in war and peace, blood and water, past and future, are powerful symbols of the times, then and now.