Fernando Botero (b. 1932)

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ID 721191
Lot 23 | Fernando Botero (b. 1932)
Fernando Botero (b. 1932)

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.
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