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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 9, 2023 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 50B | $****** - ****** | The Musicians | |||
May 23, 2006 | Christie's | New York | Latin American Art | 46 | Estimates not disclosed | Musicians |
paintings
217.2 x 189.9 cm (85.5 x 74.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated "Botero 79" (lower right)
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Monterrey.
Anon. sale, Sotheby"s, New York, 29 November 1983, lot 28.
Private collection, New York.
MacKenzie Galleries, Toronto.
Tanenbaum collection, Toronto.
Anon. Sale, Christie"s, New York, 23 May 2006, lot 46.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Fernando Botero , December 1979 - May 1980, no. 66, pp. front cover and 110 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, Tokyu Department Store Art Gallery; Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Niigata, City Art Museum, Fernando Botero , August - November 1986, no. 18, p. 41 (illustrated in color).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997 - 2000 (on extended loan).
C. Ratcliff, Botero , New York, 1980, no. 138, p. 164 (illustrated in color).
W. Spies, Fernando Botero , Munich, 1986, fig. 1, p. 2 (illustrated, detail).
G. Lascault, Botero - La pintura , Madrid, Editions Cercle d"Art, Paris, 1992, p. 258 (illustrated in color).
Botero Posters , Enrique Michelsen Ediciones, Bogota, 1994, pp. 32 and 64 (illustrated in color).
Découvrons l"art - 20e siècle, Botero , Editions Cercle d"Art, Paris, 1996, no. 30 (illustrated in color).
J. M. Faerna, Botero , Cameo Abrams, New York, 1997, no. 30, p. 39 (illustrated in color).
E. J. Sullivan & J.-M. Tasset, Fernando Botero: Monograph & Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings 1975-1990 , Lausanne, 2000, no. 1979/16, pp. 75 and 287 (illustrated in color).
F. Heine, The First Time : Innovations in Art , 2007, p. 160 (illustrated).
A. Ausoni, Music in Art , 2009, p. 356 (illustrated in color).
M. V. Llosa, Le dedico mi silencio, 2023, p. front cover (illustrated in color).
FERNANDO BOTERO (1932-2023)
The Musicians
signed and dated "Botero 79" (lower right)
oil on canvas
85 ½ x 74 ¾ in. (217.2 x 189.9 cm.)
Painted in 1979.
