Fabian de la Rosa (Filipino, 1869-1937) Filipino landscape with Nipa hut

Fabian de la Rosa (Filipino, 1869-1937) Filipino landscape with Nipa hut signed, dated and inscribed 'F. de la Rosa/MANILA 905' (lower right) watercolour 32 x 23.2cm (12 5/8 x 9 1/8in). Footnotes: Provenance The 'Germinal' Cigarette Factory's Souvenir, Manila, August 1905. This watercolour is dated 1905, just after De la Rosa won a gold medal at the International Exposition of St Louis in 1904 with his celebrated painting 'Planting Rice'. This success must have attracted the attention of the Germinal Tobacco Company. Manuel Duldulao writes in his biography of the artist 'Impressed by his work, the Germinal Tobacco Company, a cigar and cigarette manufacturing firm, sent Don Fabian to Europe as a pensionado, to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. The year was 1908.' ( A Century of Realism in Philippine Art , page 35.) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com