Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999
Monte Carlo, Marisa del Re Gallery, Fernando Botero, March 20 – September 30, 1992 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Paris, Aux Champs-Elysées, Botero: Sculptures Monumentales, October 22, 1992 – January 30, 1993 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Park Avenue Public Art Fund, Fernando Botero: Botero in New York, September 7 – November 14, 1993, no. 25 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Carol Vogel, “Inside Art”, The New York Times, July 30, 1993 (another example illustrated)
Colombian • 1932
Colombian artist Fernando Botero is known for his voluptuous and exaggerated paintings, sculptures and drawings. He studied under Roberto Longhi, a renowned authority on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, obtaining a remarkable art historical knowledge of Western Classicism. This dialogue between an erudite education and religious art for the masses is the key in the development of his aesthetic.
Botero was also influenced by Mexican muralism, with which he became acquainted while living in Mexico City. The monumental scale of the human forms in the murals gave rise to the voluminous figures for which he is best known. Botero's works make mordant comments on society's shortcomings; they also incorporate classical elements and are imbued with political satire and caricature.
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