Fernando Botero (b. 1932)

Lot 42
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Lot 42 | Fernando Botero (b. 1932)
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$ 300 000 – 400 000
Fernando Botero (b. 1932)

Bishop in the Forest

signed and dated 'Botero 67' (lower right), and 'Botero 67' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

37 1⁄2 x 45 1⁄2 in. (95.3 x 116 cm.)

Painted in 1967.







Provenance

Galerie Buchholz, Munich.

Private collection, Munich (acquired from the above).

By descent from the above to the present owner.





Exhibited

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernando Botero: Bilder 1962-1969, 20 March-3 May 1970, n.n. This exhibition also traveled to Düsseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle, 23 July-23 August 1970; Hamburg, Kunstverein, 29 August-27 September 1970; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 11 October-22 November 1970.





Post Lot Text

1 Fernando Botero, quoted in Germán Arciniegas, Fernando Botero (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1977), 51.
2 Mario Vargas Llosa, “A Sumptuous Abundance,” in Fernando Botero (Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2001), 27.
3 Botero, quoted in Vargas Llosa, “A Sumptuous Abundance,” 26.
4 Botero, quoted in Werner Spies, “‘I’m the most Colombian of Colombian artists’: A Conversation with Fernando Botero,” Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawngs (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1992), 159.
5 Ibid., 159.
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