BenCab met British journalist Caroline Kennedy in Manila in 1968, and married her in London in 1969. In 2015, it was sold for a whopping PHP46.72 million during Len Gallery's September auction. Benedicto Cabrera. The family Image of Sarejevo by Benedicto Cabrera on artnet National Artist. Second Prize, Painting, Shell National Student Art Competition, First Prize, Painting, University of the Philippines Student Council Art Competition, First Prize, Photography, 20th Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) Annual Exhibition & Competition, Second Prize, Photography, 20th AAP Annual Exhibition & Competition, Third Honorable Mention, Photography, 20th AAP Annual Exhibition & Competition, Philippine Representative, VI Paris Biennale, Thirteen Artists Award, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Kalinangan (Cultural) Award For Painting, City of Manila, Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining (CCP Awards For The Arts) for Visual Arts, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Most Outstanding Kapampangan For Arts & Culture (Painting) Award, given by President Ramos on Pampanga Day, ASEAN Achievement Award, for Visual & Performing Arts, 5th ASEAN Achievement Awards, ASEAN Business Forum, Jakarta, Outstanding Citizen of Baguio Award for Arts, given by the mayor of Baguio on the citys 88th Foundation Day. Benedicto Reyes Cabrera (born April 10, 1942), better known as "BenCab", is a Filipino painter and was awarded National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006. The Portrait of Caroline is Bencab's homage to his wife, British journalist, Caroline Kennedy. He was born on April 10, 1942 in Malabon, Philippines, and studied at the University of the Phillippines. . Bencab started his career in the mid-sixties as a lyrical expressionist. Those commercial art galleries often derisively referred to as "Mabini Art" -- galleries of artists with suspected limited talents -- were concentrated on the . VI Paris Biennale, to travel and to fly to London to reunite with his fiance, English journalist Together, they had three children. Benedicto "BenCab" Cabrera (born April 10, 1942) is the youngest of nine children, of whom the second eldest, Salvador or "Bading" would be Ben's lifelong inspiration. This is the brief story of one who did. He was the youngest of nine children. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2017. He went on to study at the University of the Philippines, where he explored different art visual forms - photography, draftsmanship, printmaking - while honing his chosen craft as a painter. For Bencab, Sabel stands not only for humanism, the loneliness of the dispossessed, but as a subject with a form that is open to different renderings and executions. Benedicto Cabrera took on the name "BenCab" even before the Cultural Centre of the Philippines listed him among the Thirteen Artists awardees in 1970. . Theyd take her home, give her a bath, but she would return to the streets..
