Botero's 'A Family' Fetches $1.4M At NYC Auction

[Judi Lynn]

Botero's 'A Family' Fetches $1.4M At NYC Auction
Published on May 26, 2011
by Associated Press

Colombian artist Fernando Botero's painting "A Family" sold for nearly $1.4 million during a New York City auction of Latin American masterpieces.

The 1972 painting depicts Botero's famous corpulent silhouettes of a family posing in front of colorful trees. It was the most expensive piece of his 19-work collection, with an estimated presale price of $1 million to $1.5 million.

His most expensive paintings, "The Musicians" and "Four Musicians," were sold in 2006 for a little more than $2 million each.

Botero's sculpture "Man on a Horse" marked a record sale price for the artist for a bronze piece, reaching $1.1 million at Wednesday's auction.

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Went to find a photo of Botero's "A Family", discovered he has multiple paintings with that name:
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS411US412&q=Fernando+Botero+%27A+Family%27&biw=1025&bih=536

You might recall Fernando Botero's images of Abu Ghraib have been on exhibit in the U.S. already.