Fernando Botero

Adam and Eve

Auction Closed

May 19, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 900,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Donald Maharam, Florida

Fernando Botero

b. 1932

Adam and Eve

incised with the artist's signature, numbered E/A 1/2 and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Tesconi, Pietrasanta (on the base of each)

bronze

Adam: 46 by 20½ by 11½ in. (116.8 by 52.1 by 29.2 cm.)

Eve: 45¼ by 17½ by 14 in. (114.9 by 44.4 by 35.6 cm.)

Executed in 1977, this work is number 1 of 2 artist's proofs aside from an edition of 6.

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Helene Wasserman, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner

Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Fernando Botero, December 1979 - May 1980, no. 47, p. 90 and no. 48, p. 91, illustration of another cast
Edward J. Sullivan, Botero: Sculpture, New York, 1986, pp. 116-117, illustration of another cast