Details
FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)
Cat
incised with the artist's signature and stamped with the number and foundry mark 'Botero 6⁄6' (near the base)
bronze
13 x 22 ½ x 19 ¼ in. (33 x 57.2 x 48.9 cm.)
Executed in 1976. This work is number six from an edition of six.
Provenance
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent.
Literature
D. Brusberg, et al., Brusburg Berichte 25, Hannover, 1980 (another example illustrated, p. 71).
C. Ratcliff, Botero, New York, 1980, no. 173 (another example illustrated, p. 204).
E. Sullivan, Botero: Sculpture, New York, 1986 (another example illustrated, p. 130).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Botero: Sculptures, October 1977, no. 2 (illustrated, front cover).
Hannover, Galerie Brusburg and Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Fernando Botero: Das plastische Werk, October-December 1978, no. 10 (another example illustrated, n.p.).
Kruishoutem, Stichting Foundation Veranneman, Fernando Botero, May-July 1980 (another example illustrated, p. 33).

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