Single Artist Fernando Botero Sale At Sotheby's New York on 25 May
On 25 May 2011 Sotheby’s will present a remarkable group of works by the Colombian master Fernando Botero in a single-artist evening sale. The auction, entitled Fernando Botero: A Celebration, takes place alongside A Discerning Eye: Latin American Masterpieces from a Private Collection and the various owner Latin American Art evening sale. It is the first single-artist sale held by Sotheby’s Latin American Art department since the auction of JoaquÃn Torres-Garcia’s works from the estate of Royal S. Marks in 1992. The Botero works are predominantly drawn from two extremely distinguished collections and were assembled over several decades. They include the quintessential themes and iconic images that have made Botero arguably the most recognized living artist in the world.
The sale will be led by A Family from 1972, one of the most important of a series of family scenes painted throughout Botero’s career (est. $1/1.5 million). Other highlights include the monumental 1992 bronze Man on a Horse, one of the artists most important sculptures and an early example of this quintessentially-Botero image (est. $800,000/1.2 million) and the sculpture Reclining Woman from 1987 (est. $500/700,000).
