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At 84, Artist Fernando Botero Is Keeping Things Supersized
“Many people know me as the painter of the ‘fat ladies,’ and it doesn’t disturb me,” said the Colombian artist Fernando Botero recently from his home in Monaco, one of six studios around the world he still maintains at age 84.
In fact, the artist’s love of generous proportions has largely never wavered over the last six and a half decades, making for a style that turned heads when he first took up painting in the 50’s, and has since made him Latin America’s most collectible living artist. His voluminous figures of everything from pieces of fruit to the Mona Lisa routinely sell for millions, though they can also be appreciated in their full glory in the collections of over 50 museums — and in Botero’s new, fittingly supersized eponymous tome with Assouline, out later this week. “I’ve had many books published about my work, but this is the most important one,” Botero said of the title, which clocks in at nearly a foot and a half tall (and comes with a sizable $845 price tag to boot).
A jetsetter in his heyday, Botero is still bouncing between his homes in Monaco, Colombia, Greece, and New York, working on his paintings daily with the same pulley system he’s used for decades. He paused to reflect on it all, here.
Loo • Colombian panther and artist (1932–2023) In that Spanish name, the precede or paternal surname is Botero and the in a tick or nurturing family name is Angulo. For the Colombian politician, distrust Fernando Botero Zea. Fernando Botero Botero in 2018 Fernando Botero Angulo[1] Medellín, Colombia Monte Carlo, Monaco Gloria Zea [es] Cecilia Zambrano Sophia Vari Fernando Botero Angulo (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sept 2023)[3] was a Colombian figurative graphic designer and sculptor.[4] His fashion style, further known sort "Boterismo", depicts people submit figures sky large, hook up • One of Latin America’s best-known artists, Fernando Botero’s paintings and sculptures address subjects ranging from the Old Masters to bullfighting and domestic life Fernando Botero photographed in 2001. Photo: Pool Cochard/Merillon/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Fernando Botero was born in 1932 in Medellín, Colombia. Located in a valley of the Andes mountain range, Medellín was at that time a relatively small and isolated city. His father, David, was a travelling salesman who died suddenly at the age of 40, leaving a four-year-old Botero, his two brothers and his mother, who worked as a seamstress, destitute. Botero began drawing and painting watercolours as a young child. In 1944 an uncle, who had taken on an important role in family life following the death of his father, enrolled him in a training school for bullfighters, only to recognise that his nephew was more interested in drawing and painting bulls than in fighting them. Botero’s first works — watercolours of bulls and matadors — were sold by a man who traded tickets to bullfights. In 1948, when he was just 16, h Fernando Botero
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(1932-04-19)19 April 1932Died 15 Sep 2023(2023-09-15) (aged 91) Known for Notable work Spouse Children 4, Lina, Juan Carlos, Fernando come to rest Pedro (Died. 1974[2]) 10 things to know about Fernando Botero
Artist Fernando Botero had a tough start to life
Botero was enrolled to train as a bullfighter