A Rizal portait like no other reminded me of the comedian Babalu. Introduced Freud to a faithful portrait of Rizal painted ...

A Rizal portait like no other reminded me of the comedian Babalu.
Introduced Freud to a faithful portrait of Rizal painted by Telesforo Sucgang in 1891. Rizal’s prominent jaw is represented because Sucgang painted Rizal as a friend not as National Hero.
Paz Zamora de Mascuñana acquired the portrait in Madrid in 1951, from the heirs of Francisco Pi y Margall, a Spanish politician sympathetic to the Philippines and the Filipinos. A street in Sampaloc was named in his honor but is som...