PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A DISTINGUISHED LADY

León Gallery wishes to thank Mrs. Sylvia Amorsolo-Lazo
for confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Fernando Amorsolo helped shape and stylize the image of the ideal Filipina. He has always been in favor of uplifting Filipino ideals especially in regards to aesthetics that’s why, in the biography Fernando C. Amorsolo: Drawings, the artist is quoted saying that he has always “rejected Western ideals of beauty” hence the continuous vision of a Filipina - the rustic scene but gentle romanticized women in what is today seem like theatrically native costumes, gathering mangoes, or planting rice accounted with nostalgic poses which evidently seen on the Untitled oeuvre where Amorsolo portrayed a lady in a classic Filipina terno sitting shyly with flowers in her hand - a ‘perfect testimony on Amorsolo’s visual representation of a Filipina, as he was quoted saying - “The ideal Filipina beauty should not necessarily be white complexioned, nor of the dark brown color of the typical Malayan, but of the clear skin or flesh colored type which we often witness when we met a blushing girl.”