His emblematic oversized figures, evoking vanity, pomposity and greed, brought global attention to Latin American art.
, moved a year later to Mexico City, where Mr. Botero seized on what would become his signature style. A Botero painting from this era — depicting a mandolin with an improbably tiny sound hole that made the instrument appear out of proportion — signified the artist’s exploration of volume.
Mr. Botero moved to New York in 1960, the year he divorced, but generated little interest among artists and buyers. “The great passion in America and the world was abstract expressionism,” heHe was selling paintings for $200 to $300 each, barely making ends meet, until a curator for the Museum of Modern Art happened to see one of his pieces during a visit with another artist who lived in Mr. Botero’s building. The museum bought Mr.
In his later years, Mr. Botero lived and worked in Paris, Monte Carlo, New York and Pietrasanta, Italy. He routinely visited Colombia but grew alarmed by its rising levels of drug trafficking and violence in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1994, a squad of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist guerrilla group, failed in a bid to kidnap Mr. Botero.
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