Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Society painter, bon vivant, and jet setter, Oscar Zalameda, produced distinctive works that were cubist in form, and always in Filipino subject and theme. His visual images presents to viewers how he masterfully merged modernist art forms with traditional Filipino scenes such as this featured piece Tres Marias depicting ladies holding their baskets of flowers an example of Zalameda turns rural scenes and the people that live amongst them are his signature motif, and masterfully used his geometric abstractions to elevate his subjects into images of complex abstraction. Hence, the presented masterpiece is a display of how beautifully Zalameda’s sense of color and personal interpretation of genre themes is, in his own signature style.