Fernando Botero Figurative Sculptures
Colombian, 1932-2023
Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor, born in Medellín in 1932. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo," depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece.
Botero was for years considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Self-appointed "the most Colombian of Colombian artists" early on, Botero came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris in 1973, achieving international recognition with exhibitions across the world by the 1990s. His art is collected by many major international museums, corporations, and private collectors.
In 2012, Botero received the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
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(Biography provided by Nohra Haime Gallery)
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Artist: Fernando Botero
HEAD
By Fernando Botero
Located in New York, NY
Bronze sculpture with brown patina.
Head of a young girl.
Category
1980s Contemporary Fernando Botero Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Monograph: BOTERO SCULPTURE (hardback book, hand signed by Fernando Botero)
By Fernando Botero
Located in New York, NY
Fernando Botero
BOTERO SCULPTURE (hand signed by Fernando Botero), 1987
Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed by Fernando Botero)
Hand signed by Fernando on the first front end page
13 × 11 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches
Provenance
Hand signed for the present owner at Fernando Botero Sculpture...
Category
1980s Surrealist Fernando Botero Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
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By Fernando Botero
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Fernando Botero (Colombian, b.1932) is celebrated for his painted and sculpted scenes featuring animals and figures with inflated proportions, reflecting the artist’s predilection for satire, caricature, and political commentary.
Born in Medellin, Colombia, Botero began exhibiting his paintings there in 1948, and later worked as a set designer in Bogotá. In the 1950s, he traveled to several different European countries, including Spain, Italy, and France, to study the work of Renaissance and Baroque masters. He also traveled to Mexico to familiarize himself with the current Mexican avant-‐garde. Botero became renowned for the varied source material he drew upon, from Colombian folk imagery to canonical works by Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso, and Francisco de Goya.
In his depictions of contemporary Latin American life, he portrays the poverty and violence prevalent in Colombia in somber images, as well as in his iconic inflated figures, satiric images of Latin American presidents, first ladies, and government officials. A meeting with Dorothy Miller from The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s proved to be a turning point in his career; she acquired his work at a time when abstraction was the celebrated idiom, and he later exhibited his work in a major exhibition at the museum, solidifying his international reputation.
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- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 1, 2024Fernando Botero is famous for his signature artistic style, which depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated sizes and conveys political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. Botero came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris in 1973, achieving international recognition with exhibitions across the world by the 1990s. His art is collected by many major international museums, corporations and private collectors today. Shop a selection of Fernando Botero art on 1stDibs.
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