Juan Luna painting, other prized Philippine art to be auctioned off Sept. 19-20
The Government Service Insurance System and the National Museum has kicked off implementation of a partnership formalized in February and meant to make the GSIS’ historical as well as high-value paintings more accessible to the public.
The National Gallery Singapore (NGS) will open to the public on Thursday the largest exhibit in more than a quarter of a century of the life and work of Philippine patriot and painter Juan Luna.
AMONG 180 pieces of artworks to be auctioned off by León Gallery during its Magnificent September Auction 2015 are an...
Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” is probably the most famous painting in the Philippines. Completed in Rome in 1884, it won a First Class medal in the Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, the same exhibition that awarded Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo’s “Jovenes cristianas expuestas al populacho” (Christian maidens exposed to the mob) with a Second Class medal.
“Behind every painting is a story,” declares Ramon E.S. Lerma, curator of Salcedo Auctions in Makati City. The story could...
Lopez Museum and Library will mount the exhibit, “Pauses of Possibility,” starting Feb. 20, presenting pieces of personal narratives or...
Will the fakery and deception never end? Apparently, in the art world, it remains a thriving trend.
Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos is fixated on artist Juan Luna’s mustache. “Asian men have no facial hair. So why did he have this bush? ”
“THE AUCTION last year was very successful. It was SRO (Standing Room Only) at the Rockwell Mall Tent and we...
