MANILA, Philippines - This year’s holiday collection celebrates Philippine’s greatest muralist of all time, Carlos “Botong” V. Francisco, who comes from the artist town of Angono, Rizal. Freeway’s ...
It’s as if the master never left the atelier. Murals after all — as considered by painters from the Mexican Diego Rivera to our very own Botong Francisco — are of the people, by the people, and for ...
A look into the original gallery of National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco, which is managed by his grandson, Totong. ONCE picked up, it took hours before his brushes were laid down. National ...
It must have been fated that these two artists should cross paths at some point. Peque Gallaga—acclaimed filmmaker behind 1980s classics “Oro, Plata, Mata,” “Virgin Forest” and “Scorpio Nights”— was ...
The last major work of muralist Carlos “Botong” Francisco before he died and the first painting ever by Fernando Zobel are among the top lots in León Gallery’s Spectacular Mid-year Auction 2019 on ...
About a dozen kids aged 6 to 12 years painted on the spot at the new Glorietta wing at Ayala Center, as part of a homage to mark the centenary of the National Artist for Visual Arts Carlos “Botong” ...
GIFT TO MARCOSES? “Camote Diggers,” an oil-on-canvas painting done by National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco, was sold for P23.4 million in Saturday’s auction at Leon Gallery. Its consignor and ...
Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. National artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco’s last and unfinished work “Camote Diggers” has been auctioned off for ...
The Central Luzon State University Agricultural Museum, in partnership with the Ayala Museum, hosts a traveling exhibit of works by National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco titled “Botong Francisco: ...
Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Four of the best-kept secrets among art enthusiasts in Manila are the monumental oil paintings by National Artist ...
MANILA, Philippines–A Manila councilor will push for an investigation on the transfer of a mural by Carlos “Botong” Francisco from City Hall to the National Museum, where it is undergoing restoration.