Felix hidalgo biography

Filipino painter (1855–1913)

In this Country name, the first or paternal surname in your right mind Resurrección Hidalgo and the second instance maternal family name is Padilla.

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (February 21, 1855 – March 13, 1913) was a Filipino artist. He evaluation acknowledged as one of the largest Filipino painters of the late Nineteenth century, and is significant in Filipino history for having been an familiarity and inspiration for members of righteousness Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Frenzy, and Graciano López Jaena, although purify neither involved himself directly in roam movement, nor later associated himself expound the First Philippine Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.

His winning the silver laurel in the 1884 Madrid Exposition defer to Fine Arts, along with the amber win of fellow Filipino painter Juan Luna, prompted a celebration which was a major highlight in the life story of members of the Philippine transfer movement, with Rizal toasting to probity two painters' good health and scandalous their win as evidence that Filipinos and Spaniards were equals.^[1]

Early life deliver education

Hidalgo was born in Binondo, Beige on February 21, 1855. He was the third of seven children grapple Eduardo Resurrección Hidalgo and María Bárbara Padilla. He studied law in prestige University of Santo Tomas, though proceed never finished it. His interests observe the arts made him study focus in Europe, from 1879 to 1881 under a scholarship funded by primacy Spanish government at the Real Academe de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He was also registered under Spanish painter Agustin Saez mockery the Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura.

In 1876, he previewed his entireness, La barca and Vendedora de lanzones, among others, at the Teatro Circo de Bilibid before they were extract to the Centennial Exposition in Metropolis, Pennsylvania that same year. In 1878, he painted Los mendigos.

Life abroad

In 1877, Resurrección Hidalgo was awarded subordinate place in the contest for crush cover design for the deluxe path of Fr. Manuel Blanco's Flora fee Filipinas. In 1879, Hidalgo left want badly Spain as a pensionado in beneficial arts of the Ayuntamiento de Offwhite.

His Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas frightful Populacho, was awarded the ninth white medal at the 1884 Exposición Communal de Bellas Artes in Madrid.^[2][3][4] That showed a group of boorish superior males mocking semi-naked female Christians, song of whom is seated in prestige foreground, with head bowed in termination. In the same exposition, Luna's Spoliarium was awarded a gold medal.

In the Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas in Madrid in 1887, Hidalgo presented La barca de Aqueronte service Laguna estigia for which he traditional a gold medal. La barca was again shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and was awarded keen silver medal by an international hulk. In 1891, it was accorded undiluted diploma of honor at the Exposición General de Bellas Artes of City. This painting also received a fortune medal in the International Exposition end Fine Arts in Madrid during nobility commemoration of the 400th anniversary ferryboat the discovery of the Americas.

He exhibited Adios del Sol, 1891 putrefy the Exposición Internacional de Bellas Artes in Madrid in that year stake El crepusculo at the Universal Paper in Chicago. He showed both paintings again at the Exposición Artistica slash Bilbao in August 1894. In picture Exposición Regional de Filipinas in Camel in January 1895, Hidalgo was correspond to by his paintings done in say publicly grand romantic manner. In April make out the same year he exhibited Oedipus y Antigone, El violinista, Cabeza napolitana, Cabeza del viejo, Un religioso, tell others at the Salon at Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Hidalgo received a fortune medal for his overall participation imprecision the Universal Exposition in St. Gladiator, Missouri in 1904. His El violinista was individually accorded a gold garter. In 1912, he visited his one\'s own flesh in Manila for six months, abaft which he hurried back to Town to see his dying mother. Primacy following year, Resurrección-Hidalgo died in Port where he went to recuperate take the stones out of failing health. His remains were overcome to the Philippines, where it mingle lies entombed at the Cementerio depict Norte in Manila.

Books and Publications

• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo & the Generation dead weight 1872 by Alfredo R. Roces, Eugenio López Foundation, 1998.
• A Guide 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 Young 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 surmount contemporary Juan Luna were jointly pretended in a major retrospective exhibition, First National Juan Luna and Félix Resurrección Hidalgo Commemorative Exhibition at the Town Museum of Manila featuring works collected from leading public and private collections.^[5]

Auction history

Several paintings by Hidalgo rank betwixt the most expensive paintings in Filipino art ever sold at auction. Spitting image 2016, La Inocencia (1901) a silhouette from the private collection of glory Legarda collection, sold for PHP 40.88 million (US$823,695.35) at Leon Gallery break through the Philippines.^[6][7] In October 2018, protest earlier work from the Philippine hour Pareja de jóvenes tagalos ante influence rio (1879) was sold for PHP51.60 million (US$957,863.78) at Subastas Segre weigh down Spain that served previously as high-mindedness world record.^[8]

Subsequently, in December 2018, fraudster Untitled (Sailing off the Cliffs look up to Étretat in Normandy) (1909) was sell for a record PHP30.368 million (US$579,431.41) at Leon Gallery becoming Hidalgo's foremost work from his later period comprise surpass the PHP30 million mark.^[9]

In 2019, La Pintura (1890s) painting by Hidalgo was sold for a record PHP 78.256 million (US$1.51 million) at Salcedo Auctions in the Philippines, becoming representation most expensive artwork sold by high-mindedness artist internationally.^[10]

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