FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)
FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)
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FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)

Little Girl in Red

Details
FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)
Little Girl in Red
signed and dated 'Botero 69' (lower right)
pastel on paperboard
40 x 31 7⁄8 in. (101.6 x 80.5 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
Provenance
Richard Zeisler, New York
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1975

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Lot Essay

The artist’s first experiments with proportional manipulation began in the mid-1950s; while painting a still-life, he placed a disproportionately small sound hole in the body of a mandolin, instantly transforming the instrument into an object of mass and monumentality. “After that Mandolin,” Botero has explained, “my world began to expand. I went on to figures and soon was creating a formal universe that found its supreme expression in small detail” (Fernando Botero, quoted in A.M. Escallón, Botero: New Works on Canvas, New York, 1997, p. 23). Painted in 1969, Little Girl in Red is a superb early example of those Boterian ideals coming to fruition.

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