Property of the Fernando Botero Foundation

Fernando Botero

Primera Dama

signed Botero and dated 70 (lower right)

pastel on paper

64 ⅝ by 51 ¾ in.

164.2 by 131.5 cm.

Executed in 1970.

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Fernando Botero
Primera Dama

signed Botero and dated 70 (lower right)

pastel on paper

64 ⅝ by 51 ¾ in.

164.2 by 131.5 cm.

Executed in 1970.

Provenance

Private Collection, Cali, Columbia (acquired directly from the artist in 1971)

Private Collection, Colombia (acquired by descent from the above by 2016)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibition

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Fernando Botero, 1972, no. 19, p. 4; p. 35, illustrated in color 

Literature

Germán Arciniegas, Fernando Botero, New York, 1977, no. 104, p. 8; n.p., illustrated

Carter Ratcliff, Botero, New York, 1980, no. 126, p. 12, p. 154, illustrated in color; p. 155

Giorgio Soavi, Fernando Botero, Milan, 1988, no. 80, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 266

Gilbert Lascault, Botero, éloges des sphères, de la chair, de la peinture et de plusieurs autres choses,

Madrid, 1992, p. 96; pl. 132, n.p., illustrated in color

Paola Gribaudo and Benjamín Villegas, Botero Mujeres, Bogotá, 2003, p. 39, illustrated in color