Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Fernando Botero

Pedro with Monkey

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Fernando Botero

1932 - 2023


Pedro with Monkey

signed and dated 72 (lower right)

pastel on paper

62 ¾ by 46 ⅛ in.

156.8 by 117.2 cm.

Executed in 1972.

Julian J. Aberbach, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1972)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Germán Arciniegas, Fernando Botero, New York, 1977, no. 134, n.p., illustrated in color

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Botero: pastels - fusains - sanguines, November 1972, no. 4, n.p., illustrated (titled Pedro)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Botero, March - May 1975, no. 35, p. 51, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover)

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution and Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Fernando Botero, December 1979 - May 1980, no. 63, p. 106, illustrated