Toro
148.6 cms x 123.2 cms (58.5 ins x 48.5 ins)
Signed and dated 2002 and on verso titled on the musée maillol exhibition label
made in 2002
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Fall 2018 Live auction" held on Wed, Nov 21, 2018.
Lot 051
Lot 051
Estimate: CAD $450,000 - $650,000
Realised: CAD $811,249
Realised: CAD $811,249
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Galleria d'Arte Contini, Venice, 2005
Property of an Important Estate, British Columbia
Exhibitions:
Fondation Dina Vierny / Musée Maillol, Paris, Fernando Botero: Exhibition, November 7, 2003 - March 15, 2004
Literature:
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, 1960, page 91
Ana María Escallón, “From the Inside Out: An Interview with Fernando Botero,” Botero: New Works on Canvas, 1997, page 12
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac, “The Perils of Popularity,” The Art Newspaper, no. 120, December 2001, page 45
Dina Vierny et al., Botero: oeuvres récentes, Fondation Dina Vierny - Musée Maillol, 2003, reproduced page 77
Galleria d'Arte Contini, Venice, 2005
Property of an Important Estate, British Columbia
Exhibitions:
Fondation Dina Vierny / Musée Maillol, Paris, Fernando Botero: Exhibition, November 7, 2003 - March 15, 2004
Literature:
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, 1960, page 91
Ana María Escallón, “From the Inside Out: An Interview with Fernando Botero,” Botero: New Works on Canvas, 1997, page 12
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac, “The Perils of Popularity,” The Art Newspaper, no. 120, December 2001, page 45
Dina Vierny et al., Botero: oeuvres récentes, Fondation Dina Vierny - Musée Maillol, 2003, reproduced page 77
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
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