Young Filipino artist sells painting at Christie's HK auction

Filipino artist Aleah Angeles sold her painting "Lazy Daisy" for twice the estimated value at the Christie's Asian Contemporary Art day sale in Hong Kong.

 

The painting was bought for $13,755 at the May 27 auction. "Lazy Daisy" was estimated to be worth $4,138 to $7,759.   

The lot notes describe the painting as an "archetypal rendition of corrupted girlish innocence," portraying a girl in a ruffled dress falling asleep under a tree, an unfinished book covering her face.

 

"Inspired by the figures of young girls, which the artist herself relates to and draws from life based on her own photographs; her paintings often show them in recumbent positions, half caught in dreams and fantasy," the notes read.

 

Angeles is a resident artist of Mendez Big and Small Art Co. The realist painter, still in her early 20s, was featured in the annual auction along with Chinese artists and other cross-region contemporary talents. 

 

Also in the auction were works by Filipino artists BenCab, Patricia Eustaquio, Geraldine Javier, Janet Balbarona, Arturo Sanchez, Ronald Ventura, Luis Lorenzana, Yasmin Sison, Rodel Tapaya, Randy Solon, Lynyrd Paras and Neal Oshima.

 

The BenCab 1984 ink and acrylic on paper "Yellow Confetti" sold at HK$500,000, while Eustaquio's diptych Reprise III & IV sold for HK$225,000. 

 

The spring season’s three sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art achieved $81,076,863.

 

The success of the sales affirms the increased sophistication of the collecting market for this category, with buyers seeking exceptional works of quality, Christie's said on its website. –KG, GMA News