Fernando Botero (Colombian B. 1932)
Fernando Botero (Colombian B. 1932)

El Infierno

Details
Fernando Botero (Colombian B. 1932)
El Infierno
signed and dated 'Botero 78' (lower right)
oil on canvas
35½ x 27½ in. (90 x 69.5 cm.)
Painted in 1978.
Provenance
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris. Galerie Alice Pauli, Geneva/Lausanne.
Sotheby's, London, The Eye of a Collector: Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 27 June 1985, lot 572.
Private collection, New York.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Botero, peintures récentes, Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, 1979 (illustrated in color).
C. Ratcliff, Botero, Abbeville Press, New York, 1980, p. 252, no. 223 (illustrated in color).
M. Paquet, Botero: Peintures, L'Autre Musée, Paris, 1983, p. 72, (illustrated).
G. Soavi, Botero, Gruppo Editoriali Fabbri, S.p.A., Milan, 1988, p. 188, no. 166 (illustrated).
G. Soavi, Fernando Botero: Oeuvres, 1959-1989, CELIV, Paris, 1990, no. 68 (illustrated).
E. J. Sullivan & J.-M. Tasset, Fernando Botero: Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, 1975-1990, Acatos, Lausanne, 2000, pp. 67, 265, no. 1978/14 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Botero, peintures récentes, November 1979.

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