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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED LADY Pounding Rice 1947 egg tempera on board 23" x 17 1/4" (58 cm x 44 cm) PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist, ca. 1949 - 1950 LITERATURE Guillermo, Alice G. and Purita Kalaw-Ledesma. Anita Magsaysay-Ho: Isang Pag-Alaala (A Retrospective). Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Manila: A. Magsaysay, Inc., 1988. Full-color illustration and painting description on page 38. Magsaysay-Ho, Anita. An Artist's Memoirs. Singapore: Anita Magsaysay- Ho and Tien Wah Press, 2000. Full-color illustration and painting description on page 101. Paras-Perez, Rod. Edades and the 13 Moderns. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1995. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines with the assistance of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 1995. Black-and-white illustration and painting description on page 76. Roces, Alfredo. Anita Magsaysay-Ho: In Praise of Women (With Annotations on Paintings by Anita Magsaysay-Ho). Pasig City: The Crucible Workshop, 2005. Full-color illustration and painting description on page 224. EXHIBITED The Manila Hotel, Anita Magsaysay-Ho: Solo Exhibition, Manila, 26 November - December 1949 The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Anita Magsaysay-Ho: Isang Pag- Alaala (A Retrospective), Manila, 15 December 1988 - 15 January 1989 Cultural Center of the Philippines, Edades and the 13 Moderns, Manila, 1995 The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Material Inspirations: Anita Magsaysay-Ho and Nena Saguil. Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, 9 November - 9 December 2024 “This was the second egg tempera painting which I made in Cranbrook, Michigan. My teacher, Zoltan Sepeshy, commented that although my first egg tempera was well done, it lacked impact. He asked me to put more gesture in my work. “I experienced pounding rice as a child of 10 or 11 in Zambales. I remember the jerking movements of the women especially at the waist, stomach, and foot as they lifted the pestle up and down to pound the rice. When I asked the women if I could try it, they were amused, but they let me anyway.”
