Lot 217
  • 217

Fernando Botero (b. 1932)

Estimate
250,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Fernando Botero
  • Leda and the Swan
  • inscribed with signature and stamped with foundry mark; also numbered 6/6
  • bronze
  • 14 1/2 by 28 7/8 by 9 1/4 in.
  • 36.8 by 73.2 by 23.5 cm
  • Executed in 1995.

Provenance

Stefano Contini Galleria D'Arte, Venice

Literature

Jean-Clarence Lambert, Benjamín Villegas, et. al., Botero, Sculptures, Bogotá, 1998, pp. 212-13, illustration in color of work from the same series

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. A few faint, minor scratched are present on the base.
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