# Anita Magsaysay-Ho artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Filipino
- Movements: Philippine modernism, Social Realism, Post-Cubism
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## About Anita Magsaysay-Ho

Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914–2012) was a Filipino painter associated in the collected sources with Philippine modernism, Social Realism, and post-Cubist approaches. A biographical source identifies her as the only woman among the Thirteen Moderns, a group linked to the development of modern art in the Philippines. Her best-known subject matter centers on Filipino women engaged in everyday activities. These recurring figures connect scenes of work and community with an increasingly abstract organization of shape and composition. Collectors encounter Magsaysay-Ho primarily through paintings, while auction classifications also include works on paper and prints. Her identity is supported by Wikidata and several international authority identifiers, although the available source pack provides less institutional detail about individual works, exhibitions, and chronology. Any attribution should therefore be evaluated through the specific object's medium, date, signature or inscriptions, provenance, condition, and documented history rather than through subject matter alone.

## Common works and media

Collectors most commonly encounter Magsaysay-Ho through paintings, particularly figurative compositions centered on Filipino women and everyday activity. Works on paper and prints also appear in the collected auction taxonomy. Broader labels such as mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions occur in the market index, but the source pack does not establish them as defining parts of her practice; each such record should be checked for medium, attribution, and cataloguing accuracy.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction data indicates an active secondary market for works attributed to Anita Magsaysay-Ho, led by fine art and paintings and supplemented by works on paper and prints. A useful appraisal compares the object with records sharing its medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution status. Signature and inscription details, restoration history, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how closely a past sale compares. Broad database categories such as mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, or editions require individual verification and should not automatically be treated as characteristic output. Realized prices are historical observations, not predictions, and reporting practices may differ over buyer's premiums and fees. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may be absent from public data.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2326096
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/32797683/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90661237
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/000000005656341X
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/231582
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Magsaysay-Ho
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/anita-magsaysay-ho/