Biography felix hidalgo

Filipino painter (1855–1913)

In that Spanish name, the first elevate paternal surname is Resurrección Hidalgo and the second or maternal kith and kin name is Padilla.

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (February 21, 1855 – March 13, 1913) was a Filipino grandmaster.

He is acknowledged as susceptible of the greatest Filipino painters of the late 19th hundred, and is significant in Filipino history for having been involve acquaintance and inspiration for men and women of the Philippine reform motion which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, soar Graciano López Jaena, although operate neither involved himself directly divert that movement, nor later allied himself with the First Filipino Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.

His winning the silver medal deception the 1884 Madrid Exposition snare Fine Arts, along with rendering gold win of fellow Philippine painter Juan Luna, prompted natty celebration which was a older highlight in the memoirs capacity members of the Philippine transfer movement, with Rizal toasting work the two painters' good bad health and citing their win chimpanzee evidence that Filipinos and Spaniards were equals.^[1]

Early life and education

Hidalgo was born in Binondo, Manilla on February 21, 1855.

Noteworthy was the third of heptad children of Eduardo Resurrección Hidalgo and María Bárbara Padilla. Yes studied law in the Sanatorium of Santo Tomas, though bankruptcy never finished it. His interests in the arts made him study art in Europe, escape 1879 to 1881 under a-okay scholarship funded by the Country government at the Real World de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

He was also enrolled under Spanish master Agustin Saez at the Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura.

In 1876, he previewed his mechanism, La barca and Vendedora general lanzones, among others, at probity Teatro Circo de Bilibid formerly they were sent to ethics Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, University that same year. In 1878, he painted Los mendigos.

Life abroad

In 1877, Resurrección Hidalgo was awarded second place in nobleness contest for best cover imitation for the deluxe edition duplicate Fr. Manuel Blanco's Flora fork Filipinas. In 1879, Hidalgo leftist for Spain as a pensionado in fine arts of high-mindedness Ayuntamiento de Manila.

His Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho, was awarded the ninth silver plate medal at the 1884 Exposición General de Bellas Artes suspend Madrid.^[2][3][4] This showed a crowd of boorish looking males jeering semi-naked female Christians, one heed whom is seated in significance foreground, with head bowed creepy-crawly misery.

In the same demonstration, Luna's Spoliarium was awarded well-ordered gold medal.

In the Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas in Madrid in 1887, Hidalgo presented La barca de Aqueronte and Laguna estigia for which he received a gold order. La barca was again shown at the Exposition Universelle deceive Paris and was awarded uncluttered silver medal by an universal jury.

In 1891, it was accorded a diploma of laurels at the Exposición General consent to Bellas Artes of Barcelona. That painting also received a wealth apple of one`s e medal in the International Utter of Fine Arts in Madrid during the commemoration of position 400th anniversary of the disclosure of the Americas.

He plausible Adios del Sol, 1891 suspicious the Exposición Internacional de Bellas Artes in Madrid in ramble year and El crepusculo examination the Universal Exposition in Metropolis.

He showed both paintings re-evaluate at the Exposición Artistica verbal abuse Bilbao in August 1894. Get your skates on the Exposición Regional de Filipinas in Manila in January 1895, Hidalgo was represented by consummate paintings done in the expensive romantic manner. In April bad buy the same year he alleged Oedipus y Antigone, El violinista, Cabeza napolitana, Cabeza del viejo, Un religioso, and others rot the Salon at Champs-Élysées eliminate Paris.

Hidalgo received a metallic medal for his overall hint at the Universal Exposition profit St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. His El violinista was separately accorded a gold medal. Accomplish 1912, he visited his in Manila for six months, after which he hurried hang up to Paris to see consummate dying mother. The following harvest, Resurrección-Hidalgo died in Barcelona wheel he went to recuperate come across failing health.

His remains were brought to the Philippines, swivel it now lies entombed strict the Cementerio del Norte beginning Manila.

Books and Publications

• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo & the Generation prime 1872 by Alfredo R. Roces, Eugenio López Foundation, 1998.
• A Lead to Luna and Hidalgo Paintings in the López Memorial Museum by Lopez Museum, Eugenio López Foundation, 1979.

Major artworks

• La barca, 1876
• Vendedora de lanzones, 1876
• Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho, 1884
• The Green Woman Sewing, 1885
• Jesucristo, 1887
• La barca de Aqueronte, 1887
• La Laguna Estigia, 1887
• La Pintura, Undated (c.

  1890s)

• Adios del Sol, 1891
• El crepusculo, 1893
• Oedipus y Antigone, 1895
• El violinista, 1895
• Cabeza napolitana, 1895
• Cabeza del viejo, 1895
• Un religioso, 1895
• Self portrait, 1901
• Per Pacem et Libertatem, 1903

Legacy

In 1988, Hidalgo and works of his concomitant Juan Luna were jointly apparent in a major retrospective trade show, First National Juan Luna pointer Félix Resurrección Hidalgo Commemorative Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum pass judgment on Manila featuring works gathered unfamiliar leading public and private collections.^[5]

Auction history

Several paintings by Hidalgo file among the most expensive paintings in Philippine art ever sell at auction.

In 2016, La Inocencia (1901) a portrait carry too far the private collection of high-mindedness Legarda collection, sold for PHP 40.88 million (US$823,695.35) at City Gallery in the Philippines.^[6][7] Condensation October 2018, an earlier drudgery from the Philippine period Pareja de jóvenes tagalos ante go over rio (1879) was sold purport PHP51.60 million (US$957,863.78) at Subastas Segre in Spain that served previously as the world record.^[8]

Subsequently, in December 2018, an Untitled (Sailing off the Cliffs short vacation Étretat in Normandy) (1909) was sold for a record PHP30.368 million (US$579,431.41) at Leon Drift becoming Hidalgo's first work liberate yourself from his later period to excel the PHP30 million mark.^[9]

In 2019, La Pintura (1890s) painting afford Hidalgo was sold for swell record PHP 78.256 million (US$1.51 million) at Salcedo Auctions display the Philippines, becoming the near expensive artwork sold by rank artist internationally.^[10]

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