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Property from an Important Private Collection

Fernando Botero

Still Life with Banana

Auction Closed

May 19, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Fernando Botero

b. 1932


Still Life with Banana

signed and dated 77 (lower right)

oil on canvas

49 by 75⅞ in.

124.5 by 192.7 cm.

Executed in 1977.

Galería el Museo, Bogotá

Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva

Private Collection, Mexico

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Edward J. Sullivan and Jean-Marie Tasset, Fernando Botero: Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings 1975-1990, Lausanne, 2000, no. 1977/24, p. 255, illustrated

Museo de Arte de Medellín, La Sala Pedro Botero, September 1977
Hannover, Galerie Brusberg and Skulpturen Museum der Stadt Marl, Fernando Botero: Plastiken und Bildner, October - December 1978
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Botero in New York, September - November 1993
Coral Gables, Gary Nader Fine Art, Botero: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, May 1998, n.n., n.p., illustrated in color