Live Auction 2005Latin American Sale Evening Session
Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)
Lot 48 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)

Horse

Closed29 May 2008

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USD 690,600

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Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)
Horse
signed and numbered 'Botero E.A 1/2' and stamped with foundry mark (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
39 x 41 x 20 in. (99 x 104.2 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 2005.
Artist's proof one of two.

Private collection, Miami.
Galería La Cometa, Bogotá.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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This work is sold with a photo-certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.


"He has the greatest reverence for horses...his father rode a horse through the hills of Antioquia. Botero's equally affectionate evocations of all of his various animals remind us that he thinks of these creatures as integral to his own personal universe."

E. J. Sullivan, Botero Sculpture, 1984.