Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)
拍品 51

Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)

Adam and Eve

已結束2014年11月25日

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USD 2,573,000

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Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932)
Adam and Eve
each signed and numbered 'Botero 1/3' and stamped with a foundry mark (on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Adam: 141 x 67 x 38 in. (358.1 x 170.2 x 96.5 cm.) including base
Eve: 138 x 56 x 46 in. (350.5 x 142.2 x 116.8 cm.) including base
(2)Executed in 1990.
Edition one of three.

Acquired from the artist.
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
James Goodman Gallery, New York.
Private collection, California, (acquired from the above in 1999).

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This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and dated 1999.

For my entire life, I've felt as if I had something to say in terms of sculpture. It's a very strong desire...pleasure—that of touching the new reality that you create. Certainly, in a painting you give the illusion of truth, but with sculpture, you can touch its reality . . . . If I paint a knife in my pictures, it's imaginary, but if I sculpt it, then the sensation of having it in your hand is real— it's an object from your spirit, it's a sensual experience even in its execution. It brings a special joy to touch the material with your hands.
—Fernando Botero 1


1 As quoted in E. J. Sullivan, Botero Sculpture, New York, Abbeyville Press, 1986, 13.