Fernando Botero

signed Botero and dated 70 (lower right); signed Botero, dated 70 and titled (on the reverse)

37 ⅛ by 43 ⅛ in. 

94.3 by 109.5 cm.

Private Collection, United States (acquired by 1980)

Estudio Actual, Caracas

Christie's, New York, 15 May 1991, lot 39

Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Mexico

Sotheby's, New York, 24 November 2014, lot 14 (consigned by the estate of above)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s, New York, 28 February 2025, lot 4 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

London, Hanover Gallery, Botero, 1970, no. 11, n.p., illustrated in color

Caracas, Estudio Actual, Fernando Botero, 1976

Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, I Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Artistas y Críticos, June 1978

Germán Arciniegas, Fernando Botero, New York, 1977, no. 117, n.p., illustrated in color

Carter Ratcliff, Botero, New York, 1980, no. 224, p. 13; p. 253, illustrated in color

Pierre Restany, Botero, New York, 1984, n.p., illustrated in color 

Marcel Paquet, Botero: philosophie de la creation, Tielt, Belgium, 1985, no. 49, p. 80, illustrated; pp. 81 and 169 (titled Auto-portrait)

Giorgio Soavi, Fernando Botero, Milan, 1988, no. 63, p. 16, illustrated (detail); n.p., illustrated in color; p. 266

Marcel Paquet, Botero: Philosophy of the Creative Act, New York, 1992, no. 49, p. 72, illustrated; p. 73 (titled Self-Portrait)

Gilbert Lascault, Botero, éloges des sphères, de la chair, de la peinture et de plusieurs autres choses, Madrid, 1992, p. 96; pl. 155, n.p., illustrated in color

José María Faerna, ed., Botero, New York, 1997, pl. 2, p. 12, illustrated in color; p. 62

Mariana Hanstein, Fernando Botero, Cologne, 2003, p. 48, illustrated in color

Mariana Hanstein, Fernando Botero: 1932–2023, 2023, n.p., illustrated in color