Cebollas españolas, #2

Details

Fernando Botero (b. 1932)
Cebollas españolas, #2
signed and dated 'Botero 69' (lower right); titled and dated 'Cebollas Españolas, #2, 69' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
34 1/4 x 36 in. (87 x 92 cm.)
Painted in 1969.

Provenance

Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg (1970).
Private collection, Germany (June 1970).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

K. Gallwitz, A. Mutis, and T. Atkinson, Botero, Munich, Edition Galerie Buchholz, 1970, p. 80 (illustrated).
G. Soavi, Fernando Botero, Milan, Fabbri Editori, 1988, p. 107, no. 79 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“I started painting when I was very young. I did my first still lifes when I was 15. Artists today are no longer interested in this theme. It is a pity because this genre has such a great tradition of masterpieces. [My] works are not painted in the style of the great masters. They are in my own style using the same objects and fruits that were used by the masters. Art is [doing] the same thing but in a different way." –Fernando Botero

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