Is this Nora Aunor "Movie Queen" painting by Cocoy Laurel?

Thanks to Victoria Donato - a filmmaker and writer based in Florida, the USA who messaged me on messenger saying "Si Cocoy nga yata nagpaint nung may crown and scepter si Ate Guy".

"Naging 1971 King and Queen of Philippine Movies kasi sila dahil box-office hit ang Lollipops and Roses' Victoria added.

Here below is the photo collage by Francis Tanseco of the said painting.


In the collage above, to the right is a photo of a painting taken from IDL Arts and Paintings IDL is Ian De Leon, the son of Nora Aunor. The photo obviously looks like it is a painting but I still have to ask is this a painting? Is this painting by Cocoy Laurel?

More on the collage above, to the left is a photo from 1971 of a coronation night wherein Nora Aunor is crowned as a "Movie Queen" as a result of the box office result of her fillm with Cocoy Laurel "Lollipops and Roses". Victoria Donato stated that she got the photos from an fb post by Fernando N. Madriaga - a Noranian.

Could this event what inspired Cocoy Laurel to paint Nora Aunor? The image of the painting is very significant because the painter was able to give us details of the dress, the crown and the colors which Nora Aunor in the black and white photo is wearing. I just don't know how much of the painting is an artistic license based on the imagination of the painter.

"Come to think of it ang painting na yan, if ever painted nga by Cocoy, is the most significant" added Ms Donato. And I couldn't agree more. It is significant because it is a result of an event "Lolli[ops and Roses" filming and eventual showing which leads to the coronation night awarding the love team of Nora Aunor and Cocoy Laurel as box office King and Queen.

"Circa 71 or 72 yan, eh di more than 50 years nasa bahay ni NA (for Nora Aunor)", said Victoria. Indeed the movie was shown to the public in 1971.

"A part of Cocoy has been in her life all along, earlier and longer than her marriage to CDL (referring to Christopher De Leon)", stated Ms Donato. She continous with "if that painting could only talk, just like  the walls in her house, sigurado maraming kwento' she concluded.

Indeed, action speaks louder than words and Cocoy Laurel's action from 1970's until Nora Aunor's passing in April  16, 2025 was very clear especially when Cocoy Laurel given another painting to Nora's child Lot Lot De Leon in behalf of Nora Aunor. A painting that the painter promised his muse as a gift when she was living.

Pinatunayan ni Cocoy Laurel na wagas ang pag-ibig nya kay Nora.

Again, is it a painting? Is it by Cocoy Laurel?

My bias makes me wish and want it to be by Cocoy Laurel. Sana may kilala or may makabasa nito ang connect me to Nora Aunor's children so that they can go and check the painting to see if it is signed by the painter and who is the painter?

Dahil sa painting na yan, we can see kung gaano ka kulay at gaano ka ganda  ang gown ni Nora Aunor during the coronation.

Nora Aunor is a national artist of the Philippines therefore she is a national treasure. This painting weather it is by Cocoy Laurel or another painter is also a national treasure now too.

It should be loaned to the Philippines National Museum and put on exhibit.

Imagine if indeed Cocoy Laurel made about 20 paintings on Nora Aunor then this is indeed an exciting news.

Imagine all 20 paintings of Cocoy on Nora in one exhibit room? Perhaps by NCCA or CCP or Metropolitan Theatre? This is a shout out to them.


























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