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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2023 | Morton Casa de Subastas | Mexico City | Subasta de Arte Latinoamericano | 65 | $****** - ****** | Backdrop design for the opera Carmen |
paintings
62 x 131.5 cm (24.41 x 51.77 in)
Oil and graphite pencil on canvas
Signed and dated 94; Dedicated to Jacques d"Amboise
FERNANDO BOTERO
(Medellín, Colombia, 1932 - Monaco, 2023)
Backdrop design for the opera Carmen
Signed and dated 94
Oil and graphite pencil on canvas
Dedicated to Jacques d"Amboise.
Provenance: it belonged to the collection of the dancer Jacques d"Amboise; private collection, Christie"s, New York, Latin American Art Auction Online, lot 45, March 14, 2023; private collection.
This work was a gift that Fernando Botero personally gave to the dancer Jacques d"Ambroise (1934-2021), who was the principal dancer of the New York ballet.
“-Have you ever tried to understand the reason for this obsession with volumes, this desire of yours to dilate bodies and proportions? -No, I have no explanation for it. Now, looking back at some drawings and watercolours from when I was a child, I think I can say that this was still happening to me, that I was looking for these volumes, these spaces. Why? Ah, ah… perhaps that is a problem to put to a psychologist, don"t you think? Maybe it is because I was very thin… No, I don"t really know. Today I am able to rationalise my interest in shapes, in volumes, in what Berenson calls “tactile values”. But when I started painting I didn"t know Giotto or Berenson. No, I can"t explain it. But when I painted that mandolin it was different, I realised that it was the form I had been looking for. So, I started to build my world, my painting.” Fernando Botero in an interview with Miriam Maffei.
Source consulted: MAFFEI, Miriam, TESTORI, Giovanni and SCIASCIA, Leonardo. Fernando Botero, La Corrida. Spain. Ernesto Armitano Editorial, 1997, p. 23.
62 x 131.5 cm
