Fernando Botero

Horse

Monumental ItemAlternate Warehouse

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Southwestern Collection

Fernando Botero

1932 - 2023

Horse

incised with the artist's signature, numbered E.A. 1/2 and stamped with the foundry mark (on the base)

bronze

120 by 68 ¾ by 90 ½ in.

304.8 by 174.6 by 229.9 cm.

Executed in 1992, this work is artist's proof 1 from an edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Please note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping, and release fees. Please contact Abbey.Flamm@sothebys.com with any questions.

Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Sotheby's New York, 29 May 2002, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Champs-Élysées, Botero aux Champs-Elysées: sculptures monumentales, October 1992 - January 1993, p. 151, illustrated (another edition)

Madrid, Paseo de Recoletos, Botero en Madrid: exposición de escultura monumental en el Paseo de Recoletos, May - August 1994, pp. 13, 47, illustrated and p. 46 (text) (another edition)

Washington, D.C., Botero in Washington, D.C., September - November 1996, pp. 56, 60 (text) and p. 57, illustrated (another edition)

Pietrasanta, Botero a Pietrasanta, 2000, pp. 56-57, illustrated in color (another edition)

Jean-Clarence Lambert, Botero Sculptures, Bogotá, 1998, no. 207, pp. 20-21, 33, 207, illustrated (another edition)