Fernando Botero

signed Botero and dated 69 (lower right); signed Botero, dated 69 and titled (on the reverse)

82 ½ by 69 ⅛ in.

209.6 by 175.6 cm.

Richard Benedeck, New York

Robert Bradford, New York (acquired from the above)

Christie's, New York, 21 November 1989, lot 22 (consigned by the above)

Felipe Grimberg Fine Art, Miami (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Dominican Republic

Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 2022, lot 488 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunstverein Hamburg and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Botero, 1970, no. 59, n.p.; p. 79, illustrated in color

Germán Arciniegas, Fernando Botero, New York, 1977, p. 7; pl. 83, n.p., illustrated in color

Carter Ratcliff, Botero, New York, 1980, no. 64, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 85

Marcel Paquet, Botero: Philosophie de la Création, Tielt, Belgium, 1985, no. 45, p. 72, illustrated; p. 169

Marcel Paquet, Botero: Philosophy of the Creative Act, New York, 1992, no. 45, p. 66, illustrated, p. 153

Giorgio Soavi, Fernando Botero, Milan, 1988, no. 56, p. 84, illustrated; p. 265

Gilbert Lascault, Botero, éloges des sphères, de la chair, de la peinture et de plusieurs autres choses, Madrid, 1992, p. 96; pl. 130, n.p., illustrated in color

Mariana Hanstein, Fernando Botero, Cologne, 2003, p. 42, illustrated in color; p. 43

Mariana Hanstein, Botero: 1932-2023, Cologne, 2023, p. 42, illustrated in color; p. 43; illustrated in color on the cover