Still Life with Fruit Bowl
Details
Edition
Unique
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Signature
Signed
Framed Dimensions
45.5 x 60 in
115.57 x 152.4 cm
Unframed Dimensions
38.5 x 53.125 in
97.79 x 134.94 cm
Year
1999
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world. Born in Colombia in 1932, Fernando Botero left matador school to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in a 1948. His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide, concentrates on situational portraiture united by his subjects' proportional exaggeration. Throughout the 1950s, Botero experimented with proportion and size, and he began developing his trademark style — round, bloated humans and animals — after he moved to New York City in 1960. The inflated proportions of his figures, including those in Presidential Family (1967), suggest an element of political satire, and are depicted using flat, bright color and prominently outlined forms — a nod to Latin-American folk art. And while his work includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero has typically concentrated on his emblematic situational portraiture.
