Salcedo Auctions’ gavel&block introduces novel feature for the next-gen collectors

BenCab (b1942)-A framed lithographic reproduction

There’s a little something for everyone this coming art+design online auction on Saturday, July 22, 2023. The third quarter sale offers an impressively diverse selection of modern and contemporary art, furniture and decor, fine prints and editions, fashion and luxury items, rare maps and collectible books, religious and ethnographic art. It is perfect for the newbie collector who is out to explore the finer things the art of living can offer.

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And in a novel move, gavel&block is launching an addition to its online sale, the “No Reserve” section, making the online platform more inclusive and accessible to a wider range of collectors, hobbyists, and casual art enthusiasts, particularly those on a budget. A carefully curated selection of paintings will be available for bidding starting from as low as PhP500 and will be sold to the highest bidder regardless of the final price. It means that you will have the chance to get your desired items for PhP500, on top of a buyer’s premium of 16.8%, which still amounts to at least two cups of coffee. This offers unprecedented opportunities for anyone to acquire valuable art from the premier auction house in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, the regular sale of gavel&block continues to make it as the online destination for art connoisseurs. National Artists make up for the collection of art prints and editions–headlined by Ang Kiukok, Jose Joya, Arturo Luz, and BenCab, as well as by renowned modern artists Anita Magsaysay-Ho and Mauro Malang Santos. One notable lot is a collection of specially designed prints by five outstanding UP College of Fine Arts Alumni namely Santiago Bose, BenCab, Cesar Legaspi, Juvenal Sanso, and Mauro Malang Santos.

BenCab, ‘Untitled’, 2022 (Est. PHP 15,000 – 18,000)

Jose Joya, ‘Couple’, #182_210 (Est. PHP 15,000 – 20,000)

Mauro Malang Santos, ‘Mother and Child at Shatin’, (Est. PHP 18,000 – 20,000)

Juvenal Sansó, ‘A Crisp Curl of Light’ (Est. PHP 60,000 – 100,000)

Among the art on sale in the regular categories are oil and acrylic on canvases by Nena Saguil, Sanso, Ricky Ambagan, Jim Orencio, Isabel Diaz and Joel Welbart Bartolome, to name a few. There’s also an intriguing mixed media piece by Lee Aguinaldo, along with a Fernando Zobel masterpiece that is printed on a cotton scarf.

Ricky Ambagan, ‘Armageddon’, 2020 (Est. PHP 220,000 – 250,000)

A printed scarf of a Fernando Zóbel painting (Est. PHP 25,000 – 30,000)

Osmundo Esguerra, ‘A balayong Kang style low table’, (Est. PHP 35,000 – 40,000)

Chanel and Louis Vuitton headline the luxury line of bags in the collection, while a tasteful selection of Filipino and Oriental furniture and decor includes works of woodcraft master Osmundo Esguerra alongside hardwood antiques handpicked by Salcedo Auctions’ specialists.

art+design is the hallmark online auction of gavel&block, the subsidiary of the country’s premier auction house Salcedo Auctions. gavel&block caters to an emerging niche of younger collectors—the next generation art lovers, who are still exploring and experimenting with their artistic taste and preferences—and established connoisseurs who are expanding their collection.

gavel&block is a subsidiary of Salcedo Auctions, the premier auction house in the country. The ‘art+design’ online auction will be held on Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 11AM. Register to bid at https://www.salcedoauctions.com/getting-started/bid.

Consignments to the forthcoming September ’The Well-Appointed Life’ auction are now being accepted via . For further inquiries, send an email to [email protected] or phone +63 917 825 7449.