When news broke that “Space Transfiguration,” a 1959 abstract expressionist painting by the late National Artist Jose Joya, had sold last March for over P112 million—the highest price ever paid for a Philippine painting at auction—it drew two kinds of reactions.
Up to now, Manila culture circles cannot stop talking about the León-Asian Cultural Council (ACC) auction last March 3 that...
Jose Joya’s abstract “Space Transfiguration” officially became the Philippines’ most expensive painting when it was bidded out for more than...
National Artist Jose Joya’s famous and important work, the 1959 oil-on-canvas “Space Transfiguration,” will be one of the highlights of...
