Abstract Composition
signed and dated 1978 (lower right)
acrylic on paper
15” x 11” (38 cm x 28 cm)

Provenance:
Private Collection, Manila

Chief spokesman for the group dubbed by Emilio Aguilar Cruz as the neo realists, Ocampo was the quintessential Renaissance man. Having had no formal training in art, and never having left the country, he may have created some of the most creatively original work, described by Ricardeo Demetilo as “most expressively Filipino.”

Leonidas Benesa writes that: “Ocampo’s color instincts were always on the bright side of the spectrum by temperament and by choice. He would use blue and gray very rarely. The years before his death, however, saw these banished colors appearing in his works, including white, the stark white of the canvas.