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Pre-bidding is now open for our September Fine Art, Design & Antiquities auction, featuring fine art, glass sculptures and vases, mid-century modern lamps, and more. Highlights include a pair of Samuel Henry Gordon Alken oil on canvas paintings, a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set" glass sculpture, and a Chinese carved hippo bone chess set, alongside paintings from Vasily Shulzhenko, John Alexander Noble, LeRoy Neiman, and more. Auction is September 30th at 1 PM CDT.
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Lot 333

Attributed to Ang Kiukok 'Thinking Man' Oil on Canvas (B)

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Starting Bid
$1,000

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Signed and dated in the upper left corner. 

Date: 1987

 

Image: 24" x 17 1/2" 

Frame: 24 1/2" x 18 1/4" 

 

Condition: The painting is in very good condition. Minor marks to the corners of the frame. The painting has been re-stretched and framed. 

 

Attributed To: In our opinion, a work of the period of the artist which may be, in whole or in part, the work of the artist. Lots catalogued as "Attributed to" are sold as such and carry no guarantee of authorship. Bidders are encouraged to examine the lot in person or request additional images and to form their own opinion prior to bidding. 

 

Artist Bio: Ang Kiukok (1931–2005) studied at the University of Santo Tomas under Vicente Manansala, the decisive influence on him and the conduit for Philippine Cubism, and was named a National Artist of the Philippines in 2001. His mature idiom is a figurative expressionism built on Cubist faceting and Expressionist distortion: figures fractured into angular planes, drawn with a confident black contour line that comes out of the calligraphy he learned at his Chinese high school in Davao, pressed into compressed and claustrophobic space in saturated reds and hot yellows against black. The seated, hunched thinking figure recurs across his career as a contemplative counterpoint to the screaming, violent pictures, the body self-enclosed and drawn in on itself. 

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