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Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo was a Spanish-Filipino businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Ayala Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines. He was also the founder of the Zóbel de Ayala family, one of the most influential families in the Philippines. Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo was born on 27 August, 1924 in Ermita, Manila, Philippine Islands. He was the son of Don Enrique Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo and Doña Carmen Montojo y Pardo de Tavera. He had two siblings, Don Jaime Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo and Doña Carmen Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo. Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo attended the Ateneo de Manila University and graduated with a degree in Economics in 1945. He then went on to pursue a Master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1947. Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo was a successful businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Ayala Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines. He was also the founder of the Zóbel de Ayala family, one of the most influential families in the Philippines. Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo was also a passionate art collector and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Ayala Museum, which houses his extensive art collection. He was also a major donor to the Metropolitan Museum of Manila and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo passed away on 11 April, 2011 in Manila, Philippines. He was 86 years old.

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 27 August 1924
Birthday 27 August
Birthplace Ermita, Manila, Philippine Islands
Date of death (1984-06-02) Rome, Italy
Died Place Rome, Italy
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2022

From November 15, 2022 to March 5, 2023, "The Future of the Past," an exhibit that pays tribute to the legacy of Zóbel, takes place in the Museo Del Prado, in collaboration with Fundacion Juan March and Ayala Foundation.

On 10 September 2022, Siga-Siga, an early 1952 work by Zóbel that previously was in the collection of his nephew Enrique Zóbel was sold at the Leon Gallery auction in Manila for a world record price of PHP44.384 million. The winning bidder was revealed to be Iñigo Zóbel, son of Enrique and great nephew of the artist.

2018

Subsequently, this record has been broken a 1959 work titled Saeta 52 (Pared Madrileña) from the Saeta series sold for PHP 35.040 million at a Leon Gallery auction in Manila on September 8, 2018. On November 30, 2019, a 1962 work by Zobel titled Perales de Tajuña was sold at Leon Gallery Fine Art and Antiques in Manila for a reached similar result for PHP 35.040 million.

2015

Since then, his works have consistently increased in prices at auction in the Philippines and overseas. In 2015, Seated Man (Nothing III), an early 1953 work by Zóbel in the collection of his longtime friends Jim and Reed Pfeufer was sold at the Leon Gallery auction in Manila for a record PHP30.368 million.

2013

Since the 2010s, works by Zóbel have achieved record prices at auctions with the growth of the Philippine art market. On April 6, 2013, Hattecvm, a work from 1949 previously in a European private collection was sold for a record of PHP43.460 million (US$1,056,082) at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong. This was subsequently followed by a record price set in May 25, 2013 by Aracili, a similar work from 1959 that sold for PHP37.467 million (US$900,773.20) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong.

2006

On May 21, 2006, Zóbel was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit by the Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for his contributions in the arts.

2003

In 2003, a retrospective was held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. The exhibition had a special exhibition tour at the Casa Museo Zavala in Cuenca and the Sala de Exposiciones de la Caja de San Fernando in Seville.

1984

In 1983, King Juan Carlos of Spain bestowed upon Zóbel, the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, a prestigious award to individuals or institutions who have promoted the Spanish arts and culture. Soon after, Zóbel died of a heart attack while traveling in Rome, Italy on June 2, 1984 at the age of 59.

Since Zóbel's passing in 1984, the Ateneo Art Gallery in the Philippines and the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Spain, have since become hallmarks of Spanish and Philippine modern and contemporary art.

1967

In 1967, the Ayala Museum originally envisioned by Zóbel to be a museum for Philippine history and iconography was established by the Filipinas Foundation (present-day Ayala Foundation).

1963

He founded the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español at Casa Colgadas in the town of Cuenca, Spain in 1963. The museum was expanded in 1978, and in 1980 Zóbel donated its collection to the Fundación Juan March, which then incorporated it into its own collection.

1960

Zóbel was a mentor and collector who aided the careers of Spanish modernist painters including Antonio Lorenzo, Antoni Tàpies, Eusebio Sempere, Martín Chirino López, Antonio Saura and many others. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Zóbel was working on a series of paintings called Dialogos which were his abstracted variations on paintings he admired in museums. He also made a series of paintings inspired by the Júcar River. After suffering a stroke that left him slightly impaired, he created a series called Las Orillas that elaborated on the theme of rivers.

1959

Zóbel is best known for his first artwork series called the Saetas. Named after the liturgical song sung in Holy Week in Spain, they were developed for the most part in the Philippines. Zóbel faced the technical problem of how to achieve the lines that his theme required, lines that were, in his own words, "long, fine, and controlled." The artist's use of a surgical syringe to eject fine lines of paint was a hallmark of this series. After the Saetas, Zóbel began a series called Serie Negra or Series in Black influenced by Chinese Calligraphy. The Serie Negra was started in 1959 in Madrid and continued for four years.

1953

Zóbel returned to the Philippines and became friends with contemporary Filipino modernist artists. As such, he collected modernist works and set up exhibits for them to be shown and noticed since modernist art was largely unappreciated. His first one-man exhibition was held at the Philippine Art Gallery in 1953. In 1954, he left Manila for six months, had a show at the Swetzoff Gallery in Boston and enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design where he saw an exhibition by Mark Rothko. Rothko's paintings made an impression on Zobel that increased his interest in painting abstractly. When he returned to Manila, Zobel started in having interest in Chinese and Japanese art and took up calligraphy classes until 1960. During this time, he joined the faculty of the Ateneo de Manila University and later was given an honorary doctorate and was made honorary director of the Ateneo Art Gallery for his contribution in education and as patron of the arts. To make a name for himself as a full-time painter, he later resigned from his position in the Ayala Corporation and moved to Spain.

1946

Zóbel started painting without formal training while in Harvard. In the fall of 1946 he met Jim Pfeufer and his wife Reed Champion Pfeufer. Reed was a painter who was loosely connected with the Boston School, and she became a mentor to the young artist. Zóbel graduated in 1949 as magna cum laude. After finishing his bachelor's degree he briefly returned to Harvard to study law, and then worked as a curator at the Houghton Library. Zóbel's paintings from this era were representational, and often had an aspect of caricature.

1942

Zóbel took up medical studies at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. In 1942, he had spinal deficiency that forced him to become bedridden that year. To pass the time, he took up sketching. He studied at the University of Santo Tomas and then left for Harvard University in 1946 to take up degrees in history and literature. He graduated in three years and wrote a thesis on the Federico García Lorca play The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden.

1924

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo Torrontegui (August 27, 1924 – June 2, 1984), also known as Fernando M. Zóbel, was a Spanish Filipino painter, businessman, art collector and museum founder.

1907

Zóbel was born in Ermita, Manila in the Philippines to Enrique Zóbel de Ayala (1877–1943) and Fermina Montojo y Torrontegui and was a member of the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family. He was a brother of Jacobo Zóbel (father of Enrique J. Zóbel), Alfonso (father of Jaime Zóbel de Ayala) and Mercedes Zóbel McMicking, all children of his father from his first wife, Consuelo Róxas de Ayala (who died on September 25, 1907 at the age of 30). He was a nephew and namesake of Fernando Antonio Zóbel de Ayala, the eldest brother of his father.