Lot No. 144


Fernando Botero *


(born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932; lives and works in Paris and New York)
Society Lady, 2000, signed and dated 00, oil on canvas, 33 x 28.5 cm, framed

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist

Provenance:
Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
European Private Collection

The oeuvre of painter Fernando Botero (*1932) literally grabs us with its fat hands and takes us on a journey that
reveals the most intimate, boundless area of colour. It reveals how he was influenced by Venetian Renaissance painting, which deeply impressed the young artist on his first journey around Europe, where he became acquainted with the art of antiquity.

Italy in particular provided the influences that essentially
define Botero’s fundamental abstraction: clear compositions that are easy to explore and may be derived from Piero; delicate, restrained hues; palettes with few colours that fill uniform fields without contours … all these are ingredients of a style of painting that appears monumental and exerts an intensive visual effect.

In Mexico, the artist conversely began to experiment with an expansion of shapes and volume in his paintings (and finally in his sculptures). He developed an unmistakable style that distorts figures – often taken directly from the classical repertoire – and played with the changed shapes that inhabit the world as children see it: large, distant, clumsy.

The two portraits (Society Lady and Man smoking) display a monumental character and emotion-al distance, a trance-like rapture, free from thought, bemused and confused as all figures created by the artist.

The still life, instead, stands as a beautiful example of another favorite theme in Botero’s poetics. As he himself explained in 2010: “After all that I always come back to the simplest things: still lifes.” Still lifes are essential to the artist, who has referred to himself as “the most Colombian of Colombian artists”. While the colour palette indicates the artist’s preferred form of expression, the proportions allow new kinds of distortion and rediscovery.

28.11.2018 - 17:00

Realized price: **
EUR 222,600.-
Estimate:
EUR 70,000.- to EUR 100,000.-

Fernando Botero *


(born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932; lives and works in Paris and New York)
Society Lady, 2000, signed and dated 00, oil on canvas, 33 x 28.5 cm, framed

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist

Provenance:
Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
European Private Collection

The oeuvre of painter Fernando Botero (*1932) literally grabs us with its fat hands and takes us on a journey that
reveals the most intimate, boundless area of colour. It reveals how he was influenced by Venetian Renaissance painting, which deeply impressed the young artist on his first journey around Europe, where he became acquainted with the art of antiquity.

Italy in particular provided the influences that essentially
define Botero’s fundamental abstraction: clear compositions that are easy to explore and may be derived from Piero; delicate, restrained hues; palettes with few colours that fill uniform fields without contours … all these are ingredients of a style of painting that appears monumental and exerts an intensive visual effect.

In Mexico, the artist conversely began to experiment with an expansion of shapes and volume in his paintings (and finally in his sculptures). He developed an unmistakable style that distorts figures – often taken directly from the classical repertoire – and played with the changed shapes that inhabit the world as children see it: large, distant, clumsy.

The two portraits (Society Lady and Man smoking) display a monumental character and emotion-al distance, a trance-like rapture, free from thought, bemused and confused as all figures created by the artist.

The still life, instead, stands as a beautiful example of another favorite theme in Botero’s poetics. As he himself explained in 2010: “After all that I always come back to the simplest things: still lifes.” Still lifes are essential to the artist, who has referred to himself as “the most Colombian of Colombian artists”. While the colour palette indicates the artist’s preferred form of expression, the proportions allow new kinds of distortion and rediscovery.


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Auction: Modern Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 28.11.2018 - 17:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 17.11. - 28.11.2018


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