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Muñeca sentada
Details
Fernando Botero (b. 1932)
Muñeca sentada
signed and numbered 'Botero 6/6' (on the left upper leg) and stamped with a foundry mark (on the right upper leg)
bronze
21 ¾ x 25 ¾ x 23 ¼ in. (55 x 65.5 x 59 cm.)
Edition six of six.
Executed in 1981.
Muñeca sentada
signed and numbered 'Botero 6/6' (on the left upper leg) and stamped with a foundry mark (on the right upper leg)
bronze
21 ¾ x 25 ¾ x 23 ¼ in. (55 x 65.5 x 59 cm.)
Edition six of six.
Executed in 1981.
Provenance
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner February 1985.
Acquired from the above by the present owner February 1985.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Fernando Botero: Recent Sculpture, New York, Marlborough Gallery, 1982, p. 36, no. 21 (illustrated).
E. Sullivan, Botero Sculpture, New York, Abbeville Press, 1986, p. 84 & 85 (clay model illustrated).
B. Villegas, Botero Sculptures, Bogotá, Villegas Editores, 1998, n.p. (another cast from this edition illustrated).
E. Sullivan, Botero Sculpture, New York, Abbeville Press, 1986, p. 84 & 85 (clay model illustrated).
B. Villegas, Botero Sculptures, Bogotá, Villegas Editores, 1998, n.p. (another cast from this edition illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Fernando Botero: Recent Sculpture, 30 April - 29 May 1982.
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