John Silva, who once tended to a collector’s wealth of rare maps, the auctioned piece among them, wrote about the map last week for ANCX, describing it as “a large, sumptuous, sharp and detailed image of the whole Las Yslas Filipinas. It was bordered by 12 intricate vignettes covering flora and fauna, various peoples, foreigners, map insets, outlying islands—a most extensive compendium of Spain’s most distant colony.
Dr. Steve Lim of online auction Art Rocks said it was quite warm inside the bidding room of Leon Gallery this afternoon, and the tension over who will win the map didn’t help. People started clapping their hands when the bidding reached the Php 28 million mark. It was a bidding war between a gentleman near the podium and a lady seated at the back end of the auction floor. Describing the battle like a boxing-like match, Lim messaged ANCX: “Male gave uppercut but madam swerved.
Meanwhile, Danilo Dalena’s oil work from 2000 called Naninilip sold for P65 million, from a starting price of P3.2 million. A denim jacket bearing Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s girls with fan painting sold for P5 million, while a first edition El Filibusterismo hardcover sold for P1.9 million. Hidalgo’s The Country Women, a signed work in oil, went for P13 million.
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Map should be kept by philippine government and should not be sold, crucial for future reference and evidence.
Bought by China.
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