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Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Fernando Botero
El nuncio
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Legendary Masters: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection
Fernando Botero
b. 1932
El nuncio
signed Botero (lower right)
oil on canvas
47⅛ by 37⅛ in.
119.7 by 94.3 cm.
Executed in 1962.
CDS Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1992 by the present owner
Acquired from the above in 1992 by the present owner
Christian Padilla, Fernando Botero: The Search for a Style (1948-1968), Milan, 2020, no. 22, p. 74-5, illustrated in color
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection, 2013, pl. 67, p. 172, illustrated in color