This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Mrs. Josefa Joya-Baldovino confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

From 1974 to 1979 in the 70s and onwards, Joya did work in a variety of forms: acrylic collages being one of them. His paintings of this long phase suggest the precious and the elusive. With their rhythmic transparent planes, they enter the realm of illusion. By the early 80s his style had evolved to a degree, given that Joya’s genesis as an abstract Expressionist – of New York school – was heavily based on his participation in the 32nd Venice Biennial in 1964, wherein he painted very large works in thick paint applied in semi-automist, gestural manner. Yet unlike the abstract Expressionist period of the early 60s wherein he employed enormously large brushes for working and trowel like palette knives, this work almost exudes a gossamer delicacy