Born in Medellín, Colombia in 1932, Maestro Fernando Botero was one of the world’s most recognized living artists of our time. His son, Fernando Botero Zea, tells us more about his father's process and what went into creating masterpieces such as Society Woman.
The Woman has been a central theme in the work of Master Fernando Botero. From the late 1940s, when Botero started his artistic career, to the present, the figure of the Woman has been a permanent obsession that emerges regularly in his canvases and sculptures. As the artist himself has stated, his work revolves around exuberance, voluptuousness, eroticism and sensuality as a way to provide pleasure to the viewer and, thus, to celebrate life through art. As such, the female body has been a constant inspiration for the artist, not only as a paradigm of beauty, but as a model for plastic experimentation.
This work is one of the highlights appearing at the cross-category Origins auction, taking place at Diriyah on 8 February 2025.
