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Original Watercolor Litho titled "La Laison" By Fernando Botero
This is an original piece that my client paid $15,000. We have the receipts and related paperwork is framed with the piece.
Signed Botero with an EA Stamp "La Laison" - Deriaquel Veda - Coll. Dubwig. Germany
Frame is beautiful Carved in Antique Silver Color. Professional Linen Matting. Documents framed inside.
Outside Frame: W 37" x H 33"
Inside Water Color: W 17.2" x H 13.5"
Retail $15,000.00
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Fernando Botero born Medellin, Columbia April 19, 1932
Fernando Botero is a neo-figurative Colombian artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists." He strives in all his work to capture an essential part of himself and his subjects through color and form.
His work includes still-life and landscapes, but Botero tends to primarily focus on situational portraiture. His paintings and sculptures are, on first examination, noted for their exaggerated proportions and the corpulence of the human figures and animal figures. The "fat people" are often thought by critics to satirize the subjects and situations that Botero chooses to pain
Botero explains his use of obese figures and forms as such: "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it." He is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense of the word, choosing what colors, shapes, and proportions to use based on intuitive aesthetic thinking. This being said, his works are informed by a Colombian upbringing and social commentary is woven all throughout his work.
Select Timeline
- 1948 - Started work as an illustrator
- 1950 - Attended Academy of San Fernando in Madrid
- 1951 - First solo exhibition at the Leo Matiz Gallery at the age of 19.
- 1956 - Taught at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Bogota, Colombia.
- 1969 - Presented his work titled "Inflated Images" at an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Select Exhibitions
- 1951 - Leo Matiz Gallery, Bogota
- 1955 - Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota
- 1957 - Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.
- 1962 - Seven Contemporary Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota
- 1964 - Cordoba Bienale, Argentina
- 1969 - Inflated Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1972 - Marlborough Gallery, New York
- 1972 - Buchholz, Munich
- 1972 - Claude Bernard, Paris
- 1975 - The Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
- 1976 - The Museum of Comtemporary Art, Caracas
- 1977 - The Medellin Museum of Art, Medellin
- 1978 - Sculpture Museum of the city of MarlMarl
- 1979 - The d'Ixelles Museum, Brussels
- 1979 - The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
- 1979 - The South Texas Museum of Art
- 1981 - The Civic Museum of Art, Osaka
- 1981 - The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
- 1983 - The Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
- 1984 - The Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
- 1984 - The Everhard Museum, Scranton
- 1984 - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- 1985 - The National Museum, Bogota
- 1985 - The Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico
- 1986 - The Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas
- 1986 - Municipal Art Museum, Niigata
- 1986 - Museum of Art, Alobany
- 1987 - The Queen Sofia Center for the Arts, Madrid
- 1989 - The Coro Museum of the Arts
- 1989 - The Contemporary Museum of Art, Caracas
- 1989 - The Rufino Tamayo Museum
- 1991 - Exhibition Palace, Rome
- 1994 - Helsinki City Art Museum
- 1994 - The National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos, Aires
- 1994 - Paseo de Recolet, Madrid
- 1994 - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
- 1994 - Paseo de Recoletes, Madrid
- 1994 - Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
- 1996 - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1996 - The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
- 1996 - Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata
- 1996 - Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju
- 1996 - The Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas
- 1997 - The National Musuum of Fine Arts, Santiago
- 1997 - The Modern Art Museum of Lugano
- 2000 - The Museum of Antioquia, Medellin
- 2000 - City di Pietrasanta
- 2001 - Moderna Musset, Stockholm
- 2002 - Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
- 2003 - The Doge's Palace and other locations, Venice
- 2003 - The Gemeente Museum, Aja
- 2003 - The Maillol Museum, Paris
- 2004 - The Art Museum, Singapore
- 2005 - Palazzo Venezia, Rome
Select Artwork
- La Colombiana - 1983
- Dancers - 1987
- Familia - 1989
- Man with Dog - 1989
- The Musicians - 1991
- Still Life with Watermelon - 1992
- A Couple - 1995
- A Family - 1996
- Picador - 2003
- Man Playing Guitar - 2003
- Ballerina - 2003
- The Bath
- Los Musicos
- Still Life with Mandolin
- Portrait of Velazquez
Quotes
- self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists."
- "When Colombian children go to church they see all these Madonnas, so clean and perfect. In South America china-like perfection is very much a part of the ideal toilet of beauty. More so even than the polychrome wood sculptures in Spain, Latin American sculptures look like porcelain. So, in contrast to Europe or North America, you connect the notions of art and beauty at a very early age. One time i ate chilli peppers after len, which is bad. I grew up with the idea that art is beauty. All my life I've been trying to produce art that is beautiful to discover all the elements that go to make up visual perfection. When you come from my background you can't be spoilt by beauty, because you've never really seen it. If you're born in Paris, say, you can see art everywhere, so by the time you come to create art yourself you're spoilt - you're tired of beauty as such and want to do something else. With me it was quite different. I wasn't tired of beauty; I was hungering for it."
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