安妮塔 馬賽賽 何

Acquired directly from the artist

This painting is in good condition, as is the canvas, which is sound, but is slightly loose from the frame. Indications of minor wear and handling are found along the edges and margins of the painting, but are not visible when framed. Examination under ultraviolet light indicates no evidence or retouching. Framed.
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“Women make up the first and dominant subject of Anita Magsaysay-Ho, one of the country’s senior modernists and foremost woman artists, for it is a subject that naturally and authentically grows out of her self-knowledge. For the artist, the art of painting becomes a projection of the self as it responds to different influences and circumstances and moves towards realization. In her paintings, women, whether working in the fields, winnowing grain, pulling nets at sea, catching chickens or tending birds, interact with another in the choreography of a universal sisterhood.”          

ALICE GUERRERO GUILLERMO, ANITA MAGSAYSAY-HO, A RETROSPECTIVE, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF MANILA, MANILA, PHILIPPINES:1988, P. 18.