Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale
Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale
Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection
Fernando Botero
El Cardenal
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection
Fernando Botero
1932 - 2023
El Cardenal
signed and dated 77 (lower right)
oil on canvas
57 ⅜ by 76 in.
145.7 by 193 cm.
Executed in 1977.
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired from the above in 1979)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Carter Ratcliff, Botero, Abbeville Press, New York 1980, no. 210, p. 238, illustrated in color (titled Cardinal Reclining in the Grass)
Edward J. Sullivan and Jean-Marie Tasset, Fernando Botero: Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings 1975-1990, Lausanne 2000, no. 1977/8, p. 250, illustrated
Benjamin Genocchio, "Larger than Life," The New York Times, 4 April 2010, p. 8
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Fernando Botero, March - May 2010