Made of plaster of Paris, it was created during Rizal’s isolation and exile in distant Dapitan in Zamboanga, months before he would meet his martyrdom on Bagumbayan Field or today’s Luneta.

Josephine Sleeping, which was made during the last years of Rizal’s exile in Dapitan, set the record at the recently concluded “The Kingly Treasures Auction” held on Nov. 30. “The ...