Live Auction 2895Latin American Art
Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)
Lot 5 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR 

Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)

Naturaleza muerta frente a ventana

Closed25 November 2014

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Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)
Naturaleza muerta frente a ventana
signed and dated 'Botero 97' (lower right)
charcoal and pastel on canvas
47½ x 39½ in. (120.7 x 100.3 cm.)
Executed in 1997.

Acquired from the artist.
Private collection, United States.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 2007, lot 68 (illustrated in color).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

I have never relied on having objects in front of me to paint a still life, or a model to paint a nude. It all comes from my imagination.
--Fernando Botero1

1 See L. F. Pradilla in Botero la Pintura: Los últimos 15 años, Bogotá, Ediciones Gamma, 2012, 188.