ID 721191
Lot 23 | Fernando Botero (b. 1932)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
Frente a la catedral
signed and dated 'Botero 94' (lower right)
oil on canvas
44 x 38 1⁄2 in. (111.8 x 97.8 cm.)
Painted in 1994.
Provenance
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 27 May 1998, lot 48.
Private collection, Hong Kong.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 30 May 2001, lot 71.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Post Lot Text
1 Fernando Botero, quoted in Werner Spies, “‘I’m the most Colombian of Colombian artists’: A Conversation with Fernando Botero,” in Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1992), 158.
2 Botero, quoted in Ana María Escallón, “From the Inside Out: An Interview with Fernando Botero,” in Botero: New Works on Canvas (New York: Rizzoli, 1997), 36.
3 Mario Vargas Llosa, “A Sumptuous Abundance,” in Fernando Botero (Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2001), 21.
4 Ibid., 22.
| Artist: | Fernando Botero (1932 - 2023) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Artist: | Fernando Botero (1932 - 2023) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
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