BOTERO, FERNANDO
1932 Medellin/Columbia - 2023 Monaco
Title: Hand.
Date: 1976.
Technique: Bronze, brown-patinated.
Measurement: 88 x 50 x 38cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered verso lower centre: Botero 1/6.
Foundry Mark: Beside it foundry mark: FONDERIA TESCONI PIETRA SANTA. Number: 1/6.
Frame/Pedestal: Plinth.
Provenance:
- Brusberg Gallery, Berlin
- Corporate collection Germany (acquired from previous owner in 1999)
Literature:
- Cf. Sullivan, Edward J.: Botero - Sculpture, New York 1986, p. 73, ill.
- Fernando Botero is the world's most important and most popular South American artist of the 20th century
- First cast of the small edition of six in this size
- Significant work from Botero's early sculptural oeuvre.