Fernando Botero

signed Botero. and dated /59 (lower right); titled El Niño de Vallecas (lower center right)

52 by 55 ⅜ in.

132.1 by 140.7 cm.

Geoffrey Gates, New York

The Baltimore Museum of Art (acquired as a gift from the above)

Christie's, New York, 2 May 1990, lot 124A (consigned by the above)

The artist (acquired at the above sale)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Fernando Botero, 1979-80, no. 11, p. 54, illustrated

New York, The Bronx Museum of Art; El Paso Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art;  San Juan, Instituto de Cultura Portorriqueña and Vero Beach, Center for the Arts, The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States: 1920-1970, 1988-90, no. 193, p. 273, illustrated in color

Rome, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Botero: Antologica 1949-1991, 1991-92, no. 3, p. 36, illustrated in color

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Botero en Buenos Aires, 1994, p. 37, illustrated in color; p. 149

Museo d’Arte Moderna della Città di Lugano, Fernando Botero, 1997, p. 42; p. 43, illustrated in color

Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Copenhagen, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Fernando Botero, 2001-02, no. 2, p. 38, illustrated in color; p. 134

Germany, Schwäbisch Hall, Kunsthalle Würth, Fernando Botero, 2005-06, p. 52, illustrated in color; p. 193

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Fernando Botero: Una celebración, 2012, pp. 94 and 308; p. 103, illustrated in color

“Los ‘Autorretratos’ de Botero en Washington,” El Tiempo, 16 October 1960 (illustrated in the artist’s studio)

Exh. Cat., Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Botero: Dibujos 1980-1985, 1986, n.p.

Exh. Cat., Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung; Kunsthalle Bremen and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Fernando Botero: Bilder, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, 1986-87, p. 35, illustrated

Werner Spies, ed., Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings, New York and Munich, 1992, pp. 20 and 22; fig. 11, p. 28, illustrated

Mariana Hanstein, Fernando Botero, Taschen, Cologne, 2003, p. 11, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, Botero: Works 1994 - 2007, 2007, p. 2, illustrated

Christian Padilla, Botero: The Search for a Style (1948-1963), Milan, 2020, no. 35, n.p., illustrated in color; n.p., illustrated (in an an archival image published in El Tiempo); p. 142 

Mariana Hanstein, Fernando Botero: 1932-2023, Cologne, 2023, p. 10, illustrated in color; p. 26