Statuette "Ballerina (Botero)"

The sculpture is quite large (37cm) at a very good price. In no other subject does Botero's voluminous forms manifest themselves so aggressively as in nude female images; no other motif of his artistic world remains so long in memory as these heavy figures with exaggeratedly full hips and legs. They are the ones that cause the strongest feelings in the viewer: from rejection to admiration. Botero's works, whether painting, sculpture or graphics, are easily recognizable, and if you've seen them once, you'll never forget. Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist, sculptor, born (1932) in the city of Medellin (Colombia), known in the world for its cartel of drug dealers, in the family of a merchant. His family lost their fortune, and his father died when the future artist was still very young. Worldwide fame came to him in 1955, when, as if by chance, the first thick thing appeared in his work. Colombian Fernando Botero does not hide his predilection for fat people, Botero portrays exclusively fat people, he has fat people — people, horses, dogs, even apples. Botero's canvases have long been in the most prestigious museums in the world, his sculptures fit into the street interiors of Paris, Rome, Madrid, New York, Barcelona and other capitals and cities of the world" - His works are listed as one of the most expensive in the world, such as his painting "Breakfast on the Grass", sold for one million US dollars.