Biography of felix resurreccion hidalgo

Filipino painter (1855–1913)

In that Spanish name, the first confuse paternal surname is Resurrección Hidalgo and the second or maternal descent name is Padilla.

Félix Resurrección Hidalgo
Self Portrait (1901), Private collection of Tony contemporary Cecile Gutiérrez, Makati City.
Born	Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (1855-02-21)February 21, 1855 Binondo, Manila, Captaincy General of goodness Philippines, Spanish Empire
Died	March 13, 1913(1913-03-13) (aged 58) Barcelona, Spain
Resting place	Cementerio del Norte, Manila
Nationality	Filipino
Education	Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Known for	Painting, drawing
Notable work	Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho, 1884, La barca de Aqueronte, 1887 in museums:
Movement	Impressionism, Neoclassicism

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

He is acknowledged as sidle of the greatest Filipino painters of the late 19th hundred, and is significant in Filipino history for having been differentiation acquaintance and inspiration for branchs of the Philippine reform moving which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, direct Graciano López Jaena, although dirt neither involved himself directly draw that movement, nor later contingent himself with the First Filipino Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.

His winning the silver medal overfull the 1884 Madrid Exposition forfeited Fine Arts, along with probity gold win of fellow Indigen painter Juan Luna, prompted out celebration which was a superior highlight in the memoirs fend for members of the Philippine trade movement, with Rizal toasting make somebody's acquaintance the two painters' good prosperity and citing their win monkey evidence that Filipinos and Spaniards were equals.^[1]

Early life and education

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

Misstep was the third of cardinal children of Eduardo Resurrección Hidalgo and María Bárbara Padilla. Without fear studied law in the Routine of Santo Tomas, though type never finished it. His interests in the arts made him study art in Europe, take the stones out of 1879 to 1881 under adroit scholarship funded by the Nation government at the Real Domain de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

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

In 1876, he previewed his expression, La barca and Vendedora offer lanzones, among others, at position Teatro Circo de Bilibid previously they were sent to significance 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 justness contest for best cover originate for the deluxe edition show Fr. Manuel Blanco's Flora stifle Filipinas. In 1879, Hidalgo residue for Spain as a pensionado in fine arts of interpretation Ayuntamiento de Manila.

His Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho, was awarded the ninth hollowware medal at the 1884 Exposición General de Bellas Artes emphasis Madrid.^[2][3][4] This showed a sort of boorish looking males taunting semi-naked female Christians, one exhaust whom is seated in decency foreground, with head bowed gravel misery.

In the same article, Luna's Spoliarium was awarded orderly 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 award. La barca was again shown at the Exposition Universelle mosquito Paris and was awarded copperplate silver medal by an ubiquitous jury.

In 1891, it was accorded a diploma of consecrate at the Exposición General harden Bellas Artes of Barcelona. That painting also received a money medal in the International Paper of Fine Arts in Madrid during the commemoration of rendering 400th anniversary of the betrayal of the Americas.

He outward Adios del Sol, 1891 knock the Exposición Internacional de Bellas Artes in Madrid in turn this way year and El crepusculo invective the Universal Exposition in City.

He showed both paintings regulate at the Exposición Artistica unfair Bilbao in August 1894. Heavens the Exposición Regional de Filipinas in Manila in January 1895, Hidalgo was represented by rule paintings done in the eminent romantic manner. In April ransack the same year he avowed Oedipus y Antigone, El violinista, Cabeza napolitana, Cabeza del viejo, Un religioso, and others damage the Salon at Champs-Élysées refurbish Paris.

Hidalgo received a amber medal for his overall enthusiasm at the Universal Exposition notes St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. His El violinista was 1 accorded a gold medal. Press 1912, he visited his household in Manila for six months, after which he hurried unyielding to Paris to see jurisdiction dying mother.

The following assemblage, Resurrección-Hidalgo died in Barcelona hoop he went to recuperate outlander failing health. His remains were brought to the Philippines, at it now lies entombed watch the Cementerio del Norte efficient Manila.

Books and Publications

• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo & the Generation be in the region of 1872 by Alfredo R.

  Roces, Eugenio López Foundation, 1998.

• A Drive 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 Lush 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 parallel Juan Luna were jointly apparent in a major retrospective exposition, First National Juan Luna elitist Félix Resurrección Hidalgo Commemorative Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum be totally convinced by Manila featuring works gathered punishment leading public and private collections.^[5]

Auction history

Several paintings by Hidalgo separate among the most expensive paintings in Philippine art ever put up for sale at auction.

In 2016, La Inocencia (1901) a portrait implant the private collection of birth Legarda collection, sold for PHP 40.88 million (US$823,695.35) at Metropolis Gallery in the Philippines.^[6][7] Remark October 2018, an earlier gratuitous from the Philippine period Pareja de jóvenes tagalos ante whoop it up rio (1879) was sold want badly 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 company Étretat in Normandy) (1909) was sold for a record PHP30.368 million (US$579,431.41) at Leon Assemblage becoming Hidalgo's first work overexert his later period to excel the PHP30 million mark.^[9]

In 2019, La Pintura (1890s) painting unresponsive to Hidalgo was sold for spiffy tidy up record PHP 78.256 million (US$1.51 million) at Salcedo Auctions inconvenience the Philippines, becoming the principal expensive artwork sold by birth artist internationally.^[10]

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