Why a Rare-to-Market Fernando Botero on Sale Now Through Artnet Auctions Presents a Unique Collecting Opportunity | Artnet News

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Why a rare-to-market Fernando Botero on sale now through Artnet Auctions presents a unique collecting opportunity:

Lushly, rationally rendered, the subject stands in a deepened lavender room, green door swung open, key turned inside its lock to let in the unknown. The emerald green door mirrors the subject’s headband, as her ruby-red nail polish reflects a feathered twinkle from the bulb alight above. Her hand raised up, as if in spiritual exclamation, resembles Mary’s during a heavenly Assumption.

marks a pivotal moment in the artist’s career and represents how by the 1980s, he had won Giorgio Vasari’s so-called battle between ItalianIf Vasari felt that only Renaissance sculptors, with their specific anatomical skills, could successfully marry drawing with color, Maestro Botero would have pleased him.

 

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I hope the buyer will never get into a Wheelchair and have to stare at this 'Venus for Feeder' from this perspective.

OMG I want one sooooooooooooooo bad!

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