FERNANDO BOTERO ANGULO (Medellín, Colombia, 1932). "Femme a cheval", 1991. Mixed media (graphite and pastel) on paper. Signed and dated in the lowe

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Classics XIX and XX

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May 18, 2021

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  FERNANDO BOTERO ANGULO (Medellín, Colombia, 1932). "Femme a cheval", 1991. Mixed media (graphite and pastel) on paper. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Origin: Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris. Measurements: 40 x 55 cm; 60 x 76 cm (frame). In this work Botero depicts a female figure mounted on horseback as the protagonist of the entire composition, a frequent and well-known motif in his artistic production, both in his drawings, paintings and sculptures. Not exempt of irony, Botero's characteristic style is concentrated in the volumes that give a round aspect to the figures, which embody varied themes, from great events and historical characters, to everyday life through landscapes, objects, people and animals, such as the drawing that happens to us. In Botero's drawings there is a will of style that leads him, since the early sixties, to react against the merely sketched, and to abandon more and more the game with the unfinished. Sculptor, painter and draftsman, Fernando Botero held his first exhibition when he was only sixteen years old, in his hometown. That same year, 1948, he moved to Bogota to present two of his watercolors at the Exposition of Antioquian Artists. In 1951, after finishing his secondary studies, Botero settled in the Colombian capital. He soon came into contact with the most prominent intellectuals of the time, and that same year he held two consecutive exhibitions at the Leo Matiz Gallery, winning the prize at the Colombian Artists' Salon. In 1952 he begins his trip to Europe, which will take him to Spain first. He travels through Italy and returns to Bogota in 1955. Three years later he was appointed professor of Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia. In 1960 Botero settled in New York, and a year later managed to sell "La Mona Lisa a los doce años" to the Museum of Modern Art of the city. In 1969 he exhibited in Paris, and at that time he began a pilgrimage around the world in search of inspiration, moving continuously between Bogota, New York and Europe. His fame grew more and more, and during the seventies he settled in Paris. In 1983 Botero settled in Pietrasanta (Tuscany, Italy), a small town famous for its foundries, which for the artist meant the continuity of his sculptural work. Fernando Botero is represented in the Museum that bears his name in Bogota, as well as in the Metropolitan, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Art Collection of the Luis Angel Arango Library in Colombia, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the Kunsthalle and the Staatsgalerie in Munich, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, the Museums of Modern Art in Bogota, Tokushima, Hiroshima and the Vatican, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Scheringa de Spanbroek in Holland, among many other public and private collections around the world. It also has numerous public monuments in cities such as Madrid, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris and New York, among others.
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