Artist: Fernando Botero (1932 - )
Nationality: Columbian
Movement: Modern Latin American School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Botero studied European and Latin American painters in order to produce his unique style of portraiture and landscapes. His paintings are humorous representations of the people and scenes around him deliberately painted in an amateur style. Botero is also known for his large sculptures of female nudes.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fernando Botero - Adam and Eve 1973 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Colombian
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Anonymous, Morning Sun, Sunkist, San Fernando Heights Lemon Assn., San Fernando, Cal., circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Evening Star, San Fernando Heights Lemon Assn. San Fernando, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Ramona Memories, San Fernando Heights Lemon Association, San Fernando, Los Angeles Co., California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Silver Moon, Sunkist, San Fernando Heights Lemon Assn., San Fernando, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas - Miss La LA at the Cirque Fernando 1879 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Fernando Selma, The Israelites Crossing The Red Sea, 18th - 19th century
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Edgar Degas, French, 1834-1917 Au Cirque Fernando At the Cirque Fernando [Au Cirque Fernando] France
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Fernando Vilchis, "Senal No. 11", 20th century
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Fernando Selma, The Return of Jacob, 1777
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Fernando Selma, The Return of Jacob, 1777
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Fernando Selma, Portrait of Prince de la Paz, Spanish Commander General, 1803
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Fernando Selma, Portrait of Prince de la Paz, Spanish Commander General, 1803
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Fernando Zobel, Illescas, 1968
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Fernando Zobel, Untitled, 20th century
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JosÈ Simon de Larrea, Fernando VII, 1808
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Fernando Zobel, Untitled, 20th century
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Fernando Zobel, Untitled(Abstract Landscape), 1965
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Un Infante de Espana (Infante Don Fernando), after the painting now in the Prado, 1868
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Fernando Selma, Portrait of Count de Floridablanca, First Secretary of State, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Donna Maria Josefa Pimentel, 1794
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Fernando Selma, Music and the Emotions, 18th - 19th century
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Manuel Salvador Carmona, Portrait of Don Fernando de Silva Alvarez de Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba, 1786
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Pierre Auguste Renoir - Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) 1879 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Fernando Castro Pacheco, Yarn Making, 20th century
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Fernando Ramos Prida, Sonata para la invencion de un sueno, 1971
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Fernando Selma, Madonna della Tenda, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Flavio Josefo Natural De Jerusalen, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Vista de Tarregona from road to Barcelona, 18th - 19th century
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Fernando Selma, Imagen de Christo en el Descendimiento de la Cruz, 18th - 19th century
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Portrait of a Cardinal, Probably Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541-1609), ca. 1600 El
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Fernando Garcia-Ponce, Composicion 14 (Composition 14), eleventh plate in the portfolio, 21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela (21 Printmakers of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela), 1972
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Ipolito Salazar, su alteza imperial y real, archiduque de austria/ fernando maximiliano,/ emperador electo de mÈxico (His Imperial Royal Highness, Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand Maximilian, Emperor Elect of Mexico), circa 1864
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Pietà
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Maréchal Francisco Serrano
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Tom·s LÛpez EnguÌdanos, Portrait of General Urrutia, Duke of the Infantado, 1804
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San Fernando Tunnel, Los Angeles County, SPRR
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Brabisimo! (Bravo!), plate 38 from the series Los Caprichos (Caprices), 1799
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Apparition of the Virgin
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Tom·s LÛpez EnguÌdanos, Portrait of Dr. Edward Jenner, discoverer of the smallpox vaccination, 18th - 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (6)
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Modern Museum: Fernado Botero: Paintings and Large-scale Sculpture
The paintings, not seldom paraphrases of famous art-historical pieces, radiate a peculiar stillness and mild satire. In his paintings we can make acquaintances with Italian Renaissance princes, Latin matrons, bull fighters, genial transvestites...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Fernando Botero: Painter of The Incredible
To Botero beauty is first and foremost form and volume. When he paints women he finds supreme beauty in the curves of the female body. Botero's women, however, are no svelte, glamorous maidens - no, they are big, ultra feminine and opulent dame...
Singapore Art Museum: Botero in Singapore: Monumental Sculpture and Painting
Before the larger-than-life monumental sculptures are unveiled to the public, we invite you to a special viewing session at the Helu-Trans Warehouse on 24 November at 10am, where 17 solid bronze nude sculptures await.  The largest of the sculpture...
San Diego Museum of Art: Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
For more than 2000 years, portraits have served many purposes in Latin America: preserving the memory of the deceased; bolstering the social standing of the aristocracy; marking the deeds of the powerful and heroic; advancing the careers of poli...
Christie's Auction House: The Indestructible, Unfathomable and Timeless World of Latin American Art
The London sale will consist of eight dramatic paintings featuring the history of the Mexican Conquest, which are to be auctioned as part of Christie’s Old Master Pictures sale on December 17. Considered to be the most important Colonial paintings ev...
Kiang Gallery: Between the Known and the Unknown: Drawings of Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez
Then came the shift. Ortiz-Hernández put everything in reverse. She moved from painting to drawing, and from expressionism to her highly idiosyncratic geometric abstraction. In doing so, she jettisoned figures, brushes, colorful paint, canvas, and...

Further Artwork and Information:

Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero Online
Fernando Botero, Monograph, Catalogue raisonné, Colombian Artists
Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero Art Prints
Colección Banco de la República - Donación Botero
Fernando Botero art gallery
Museo Botero. Banco de la República de Colombia. Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango del Banco de la República
Fernando Botero - EL SITIO PAISA - Lo Paisa.com - Antioquia y sus costumbres - MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
Colombian Artists, Fernando BOTERO, Contemporary Art

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