Galicano returns to one of his favorite subjects, the sea, capturing it in a sullen mood, the sky calm and a tad foreboding. As a member of the Dimasalang Group, Galicano fiercely held his own by remaining outside the onslaught of the Modernist Avant Garde. A magazine review written in 1978 said: “Somehow a European atmosphere has crept into them which is totally at odds with the Philippine setting". Yet Galicano stuck to his French eye in looking at the Philippine landscape and seascape which has endeared him to countless collectors. His poetic visual reveries reveal him to be a master of atmospheric effects.
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Romulo Galicano (b.1945)
Seascape
signed and dated 1974 (lower right)
oil on canvas
12” x 15 1/2” (30 cm x 39 cm)
SOLD: PHP 373,760
Provenance: Sylvia Fernandez-Lacson