Born in Medellín, Colombia in 1932, Maestro Fernando Botero was one of the world’s most recognized living artists of our t.mes . 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.
