Fernando Botero, Signed (12 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. Botero, Fernando (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated limited edition of 200 copies only. Printed and bound in Italy. Printed on Fabriano paper, numbered by hand and signed by the artist, Fernando Botero, in pencil. This is copy #109. Each copy was issued with an original photolithograph numbered by hand and signed by the artist. However, the original litho is missing from this volume; thus the volume is priced accordingly. Book size is 16 x 12 inches. Medium gray cloth boards lettered in silver-white to the front board and the spine. Front board with an undamaged color reproduction of The Dancers, a 1982 oil on canvas. Moderately bumped and rubbed spine tail, and with fairly sharp corners with a bit of edge rubbing. The gray boards with some uneven fading. At the bottom of the front board, a ½ inch nick. Text block firmly bound in. With unnumbered pages, on heavy-duty, matte stock. With a 9-page essay by the author, Restany, and signed by him in a neat black ink hand. Also with a biography, works in public collections, list of exhibitions, and bibliography. With numerous, crisp full-color plates by Botero, all full-page and all with pristine tissue guards. An immensely clean interior. Very gently read. The slipcase is missing, accounting for the fading over time of the book binding. Downgraded to Very Good Only due to absence of the slipcase and condition of the binding. 6 lbs. 3 oz. weight. "Fernando Botero Angulo [1932-2023] was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.". Signed by Author and Illustrat.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Botero and dated '94 with brief personalized inscription on the inside front cover. Published for the "Botero In Chicago" exhibition, April 29 - August 14, 1994, Chicago, IL. Exhibition included an"Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition" in Grant Park and the "Botero Drawings: 1980-1993" at the Chicago Cultural Center. Clean and tightly bound in staple wraps. Fine contents and plates. A single tiny tear at the top of the spine, otherwise fine. English/Spanish text. Large format (11" X 8 1/2"). Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Botero, Fernando (illustrator). First. Profusely illustrated with 228 plates, including 150 in color, several folding. 272 pages. Short square folio, red cloth, d.w. New York: Abbeville Press, (1980). First edition. Upper corner a bit bumped, still near fine in near fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by the artist on the flyleaf: "To Audrey. Cordially Botero". A lavishly illustrated study of the Columbian artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Color Plates (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Botero on free end page. The drawings and paintings illustrated in this newly revised and beautifully designed volume provide a wonderful chronicle of Fernando Botero's creative life from 1982 to the present. Culled from extensive conversations, the accompanying text brings to the reader the voice of an artist who regards painting as a "physical necessity" declaring that "when I think of reality, I think of a painted reality." Many of these images of generals and prostitutes, lovers and solitary men, horses and cows, bishops and ladies gathered in gardens-have never been published before. Impassive and seemingly mute, Botero's people nevertheless inhabit their world with a fullness and sensuousness that is unforgettable and powerful. The matches and groups of works on these pages have been made by the artist himself, who has attended to the book with the same affection brought to each painting and drawing. In the process of creating this volume he has joined forces with Paola Gribaudo, the Turin-based designer who has collaborated with him for thirteen years. In oil or pastel on canvas, each stroke of the brush or movement of the hand is made with the knowledge that it will create another small but important part of the rich and enigmatic world for which he is so well known. Rounding out the volume are a list of illustrated works, list of exhibitions, and selected bibliography. As the reader turns these pages, a portrait of the artist as inventor of his own life emerges that is every bit as compelling as the pictures he has brought into being. How was this young Colombian transformed into an international artist who lives and works in new York, Paris, Monte Carlo, and Tuscany? We learn of the "journey within the journey." Of Botero drawing "like a painter, creating the volumes from the inside out." His studies of Caravaggio, Ingres, Van Eyck, and Goya inform his view that it is finally the familiar, local world that is universal and memorable. Signed by Author(s).

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. (1996). 4to. SIGNED by Botero. Slight toning to textblock edges with light wear to bottom corner. Offsetting from signature to front wrapper verso, and titles pages. Light wear and scraping to edges, forecorners, spine ends, and joints of gently rubbed and faintly scratched wrappers. VG in wrappers. Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With an essay by Wilfried Wiegand and an introduction by Ingo Schulze. Berlin, Nikolai, 2004. Features 190 full-page and double-page sized illustrations from photographs. Original cardboard cover with dust jacket. Dedicated copy. Includes impressive photo portraits of artists from literature, music, drama, and film. Approximately 60 images bear the handwritten signatures of the people portrayed, including: Imre Kertész, Hans Keilson, A. L. Kennedy, Jonathan Franzen, Ingo Schulze, Durs Grünbein, Raoul Schrott, Günter de Bruyn, Christoph Hein, Monika Maron, Katja Lange-Müller, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ursula Ehler & Tankred Dorst, Brigitte Kronauer, Alfred Muschg, Felicitas Hoppe, Günter Grass & Wislawa Szymborska & Czeslaw Milosz (mounted), Christa Wolf, Walter Kempowski, Rühmkorf & Härtling, Peter Nádas, Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer, Stanislaw Lem, Sir Simon Rattle, Hans Werner Henze, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Serkin (mounted), Mstislav Rostropovich (mounted), Peter Stein, Bruno Ganz, George Tabori, Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Fernando Botero, and Julian Schnabel. Includes an artist register with short biographies, along with the previous owner's notes on the place and date of successful "autograph hunts." Front title page contains a handwritten dedication from the photographer to the collector. Dimensions: 31.5 x 25 cm. 249, [3] pages. Dust jacket has small tears, binding edges are slightly discolored, and the bottom of the spine is bumped due to years of taking the book to readings, performances, and concerts. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 122 pages; in French; very good condition except small crease to lower right coner of last 20 pages and rear cover; inscribed on limitation page and signed by Botero in black marker in a numbered edition of 175; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condition: Usato. cm 29,5x21, pag (32), br edit ill, acetato con tit, comp.te ill a col e in b/n. Un margine leggermente piegato per l'acetato che si è ristretto. Con invio autografo dell'A. a importante gallerista.

Milano, Skira, 2015 (luglio), Edizione originale. Esemplare in perfetto stato pregiato da bella dedica autografa dell'artista alla sguardia anteriore. Imponente catalogo dedicato al grande pittore e scultore colombiano scomparso nel 2023. Realizzato dall'editore Skira nel 2015 e curato da Rudy Chiappini, il volume riproduce opere pittoriche del periodo 1959 - 2015, insieme a diverse fotografie in bianco e nero di Botero. Suddivisa in sezioni tematiche - «Antichi maestri», «Natura morta», «Corrida», «Religione», «Politica», «Società», «Famiglia», «Festa», «Nudo», «Ritratti», «Violenza in Colombia», «Circo», «Abu Grahib») - la monografia permette di afferrare in modo completo l'universo artistico di Botero e la sua visione della vita fatta di soggetti (umani, animali e vegetali) dalle forme piene, morbide e sensuali. in 4°, cartonato marrone con titoli bianchi al dorso, sovracoperta illustrata (particolare di «Donna seduta»), pp. 256, 191 immagini a colori e 9 in bianco e nero a piena pagina, sguardie mute. Edizione originale. Esemplare in perfetto stato pregiato da bella dedica autografa dell'artista alla sguardia anteriore. cartonato marrone con titoli bianchi al dorso, sovracoperta illustrata (particolare di «Donna seduta»),

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Text by Gilbert Lascault. Illustrated with full-page plates. 124 pages. 4to, white silk cloth with large pictorial label. Paris: Galerie Hopkins-Custot, 2004. Cloth is a bit dust-soiled, else fine. Limited edition of this exhibition catalog. Number 35 of 175 numbered copies. This one is a presentation copy, signed by Botero. Without jacket, as issued.

Thin cardboard. 14,5 x 10 cm. Framed in black passepartout [32 x 23.5 cm] with photo. Signed in red pen. Name typed on front by recipient. Stamp with date on back. Filing number written on back. * Fernando Botero [1932-2023] was a Columbian artist, known for his very round exagerrated depiction of people, termed 'Boterismo'. He painted and made sculptures, which can be seen all around the world. Much of his work had a political undertone, especially the series of paintings he made in 2005 called Abu Ghraib, which depicts the American forces abuse of the prioners at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War.

Original handdrawn sketch signed, one page (postcard), 6 x 4 inch, 1991, drawn and signed in green felt tip "Botero 91", attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Fernando Botero in front of an artwork (altogether 8,25 x 11,75 inch), in very fine condition.