Property from the Estate of D✨onald Maharam, Florida
Fernando Botero
Adam and Eve
Auction Closed
May 19, 10:59 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 900,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Estateꩲ of ꦅDonald Maharam, Florida
Fernando Botero
b. 1932
Adam and Eve
incised with the artist's signature, numbered E/A 1/2 and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Tesconi, Pietrasanta (on the base of each)
bronze
Adam: 46 by 20½ by 11½ i❀n. (116.8 by 52.1 by 29.2 cm.)
Eve: 45¼ by 17½ by 14 in. ✅(114.9 by 44.4 by 35.6 cm.)
Executed 🐷in 1977, this work is number 1 of 2 artist's proofs aside from an edition of 6.
Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Helene Wasserman, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner
Helene Wasserman, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner
Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Fernando Botero, December 1979 - May 1980, no. 47, p. 90 and no. 48, p. 91, illustration of another cast
Edward J. Sullivan, Botero: Sculpture, New York, 1986, pp. 116-117, illustration of another cast
Edward J. Sullivan, Botero: Sculpture, New York, 1986, pp. 116-117, illustration of another cast
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