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HERNANDO RUIZ OCAMPO (1911-1978)
Untitled
Oil on canvas, at the lower right signed and dated HR Ocampo ‘45.
23 x 16 1/2in (58.5 x 42cm) sight
US$5,500 - 7,000
Dated 1945, this painting belongs at the end of Hernando Ruiz
Ocampo’s so-called “proletarian period” of 1934-1945, during
which he painted the stark realities of war, hunger, and dislocation
he witnessed in the Philippines during WWII. The expressionistic
portrayal of the war-wounded in bright colors on this canvas
is consistent with his style of this period, just before he turned
increasingly to abstraction in the early 1950s.
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