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FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)

Lot 50
09.11.2023 18:30UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 2 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1064352
Lot 50 | FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)

The Musicians

signed and dated 'Botero 79' (lower right)

oil on canvas

85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.)

Painted in 1979.





Provenance

Marlborough Gallery, New York.

Private collection, Monterrey.

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1983, lot 28.

Private collection, New York.

MacKenzie Galleries, Toronto.

Tanenbaum collection, Toronto.

Anon. Sale, Christie’s, New York, 23 May 2006, lot 46.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

C. Ratcliff, Botero, New York, 1980, no. 138, p. 164 (illustrated in color).

W. Spies, Fernando Botero, Munich, 1986, fig. 1, p. 2 (illustrated, detail).

G. Lascault, Botero - La pintura, Madrid, Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1992, p. 258 (illustrated in color).

'Botero,' special edition of Connaissance des Arts, July 1993, no. 28, p. 32 (illustrated in color).

Botero Posters, Enrique Michelsen Ediciones, Bogota, 1994, pp. 32 and 64 (illustrated in color).

Découvrons l'art - 20e siècle, Botero, Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1996, no. 30 (illustrated in color).

J. M. Faerna, Botero, Cameo Abrams, New York, 1997, no. 30, p. 39 (illustrated in color).

E. J. Sullivan & J.-M. Tasset, Fernando Botero: Monograph & Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings 1975-1990, Lausanne, 2000, no. 1979⁄16, pp. 75 and 287 (illustrated in color).

F. Heine, The First Time: Innovations in Art, 2007, p. 160 (illustrated).

A. Ausoni, Music in Art, 2009, p. 356 (illustrated in color).

M. V. Llosa, Le dedico mi silencio, 2023, p. front cover (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Fernando Botero, December 1979 - May 1980, no. 66, pp. front cover and 110 (illustrated in color).

Tokyo, Tokyu Department Store Art Gallery; Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Niigata, City Art Museum, Fernando Botero, August - November 1986, no. 18, p. 41 (illustrated in color).

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997 - 2000 (on extended loan).
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:Colombia, South America
Auction house category:Paintings
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