In the afternoons she served as a volunteer, watching over the P.A.G. She later experimented with a syringe technique similar to that of Fernando Zobel and Lee Aguinaldo, painting delicate loops and spatters on softly brushed grounds.
Buying Nena Saguil paintings – Highest Prices Paid: Artist Bio & images follow:5090 Likini Street Unit PH106E | Honolulu, Hawaii 96818(b. Manila, September 19, 1914, d. Paris, February 1994)Nena Saguill, a pioneering Philippine modern artist remembered as a feminist, a mystic and a recluse, was one of ten children of Epifanio Saguil and Remedios Laconico.
She would soon be honored with memorial exhibitions at the Lopez Museum (1995), at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (1997), and at the Ateneo Art Gallery (2003). She never pursued a husband or children of her own, but she enjoyed the city of Paris and would call it home for much of her life. In 2006 Philippine President Arroyo posthumously awarded Saguil a Presidential Medal of Merit. Her 1953 oil Power Room,in the Paulino and Hetty Que Collection, features a toilet-headed figure wielding a plunger and a whip in a tiled bathroom setting embellished with coils of human waste.
In contrast, her distance from this land seemed to free her to find her own unique voice in high abstraction of varying types.
It is said that her collection of works can be divided into two parts: The Manila works and the Paris works. She was even awarded a Presidential Medal of Merit in 2006 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Nena lived in a tiny apartment in the Saint Germain des Pres district, offering maid services in order to make rent while steadily creating new works. She had lived and worked in Paris for over a decade before coming back to Manila for a retrospective exhibition at the new Solidaridad Galleries in 1968, bringing over 200 works with her.
In 1954, Nena applied for the Walter Damrosch Scholarship.
Refusing to attend Catholic school, Nena instead joined the arts program at the University of the Philippines. Saguil also sold a few Paris scenes in a style Saguil, now isolated from the Philippine art scene, lived in solitude in a dingy apartment in the Saint Germain des Pres district, sometimes working as a maid to support herself. After Nena Saguil passed away in 1994, her recognition continued to expand.
In 1949, Nena received her Bachelor of Fine Arts.
1964 und 1967 wurde sie auf dem Salon International Juvisy in Cagne-sur-Mer in Frankreich und 1967 und 1969 auf dem 1. und 2. Life in Paris wasn’t always easy for the expatriate.
Description: Nena Saguil (1924-1994) White Puppies (Les Petits Chiens Blancs) signed and dated 1953 (lower right) oil on canvas 22” x 18” (56 cm x 46 cm) View additional info Realized: Log in or create account to view price data Lot 61: NENA SAGUIL (1914 - 1994) Untitled . There, she would study abstract and modern art at the Institute of Spanish Culture.
Her signature pieces over time used recurring themes of geometric shapes repeating into patterns which seem to symbolize either the universe at large or on the microscopic level- or some combination thereof. (Philippine Art Gallery), a project of Lyd Arguilla’s. (770) 570-9284 . She was even awarded a Presidential Medal of Merit in 2006 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
In 1954, at the age of forty, a Walter Damrosch Scholarship allowed Saguil to …
Saguil was awarded a certificate in painting in 1933. After Nena Saguil passed away in 1994, her recognition continued to expand.
Finally, she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Merit in 2006 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Most of her paintings created during her time in Manila remained figurative and harkened a sense of nostalgia for the place and people of her homeland. Later in life Saguil claimed to have been born in 1924, but research has confirmed that she was born in 1914.Not wanting to attend Catholic school, as her conservative parents wished her to, Saguil studied art at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts where artist Anita Magsaysay was a classmate.