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Featured Lot - Félix Resurreccion Hidalgo y Padilla (1857–1915) - 19th Century Philippine School Signed and dated by the author in 1879. Measurements 75 x 50 cm, 98 x 77 cm (with frame). In 1879 he earned one of the pensions paid by the Manila Provincial Council to continue his training at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. After traveling to Rome where he met other Filipino artists such as Juan Luna or M. Zaragoza, he settled permanently in Paris where he would stand out in painting with historical, symbolic and landscape themes. Félix Resurrección Hidalgo was a man of great literary culture to the point that José Rizal upon publishing his famous "Noli me tangere" sent him a copy and asked for his opinion. There is evidence that one of the opinions most valued by Rizal, hero of Philippine independence and of the Parliamentary representation of the Philippine Islands in the Peninsula. Bibl.: A. Roces, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo and the generation of 1872, Manila, Eugenio López Foundation, 1995; Discovering Philippine art in Spain, exhibition catalogue, Manila, National Centennial Commission, 1998. Provenance: acquired from the artist himself in Paris by Don Ángel Avilés Merino, Spanish painter, (Córdoba, January 24, 1842 - Madrid, November 13, 1924), and inventoried and described on May 2, 1922, with the same measurements and description in the artist's inventory.

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Featured Lot - Félix Resurreccion Hidalgo y Padilla (1857–1915) - 19th Century Philippine School Signed and dated by the author in 1879. Measurements 75 x 50 cm, 98 x 77 cm (with frame). In 1879 he earned one of the pensions paid by the Manila Provincial Council to continue his training at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. After traveling to Rome where he met other Filipino artists such as Juan Luna or M. Zaragoza, he settled permanently in Paris where he would stand out in painting with historical, symbolic and landscape themes. Félix Resurrección Hidalgo was a man of great literary culture to the point that José Rizal upon publishing his famous "Noli me tangere" sent him a copy and asked for his opinion. There is evidence that one of the opinions most valued by Rizal, hero of Philippine independence and of the Parliamentary representation of the Philippine Islands in the Peninsula. Bibl.: A. Roces, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo and the generation of 1872, Manila, Eugenio López Foundation, 1995; Discovering Philippine art in Spain, exhibition catalogue, Manila, National Centennial Commission, 1998. Provenance: acquired from the artist himself in Paris by Don Ángel Avilés Merino, Spanish painter, (Córdoba, January 24, 1842 - Madrid, November 13, 1924), and inventoried and described on May 2, 1922, with the same measurements and description in the artist's inventory.

Estimate 40 000 - 50 000 EUR
Starting price 9 000 EUR

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For sale on Thursday 25 Jul : 16:00 (CEST)
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