Big Botero nude leads $14.7 million Latin American art sale
- November 18, 2009 16:26
A one-ton nude sculpture by Colombian Fernando Botero sold for $1.14 million in a robust sale of Latin American art at Christie's in New York Tuesday night. Nearly 12-feet long, Botero's 'Smoking Woman' shows a jaunty woman sprawled on a sheet, daintily holding a cigarette. The artist's Madonna-like watercolor "Mother and Child" fetched $614,500, a world auction record for his work on paper. In all, Christie's raked in $14.7 million, its priciest evening auction since May 2008, with 90% lots sold.