Fernando Botero: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Monographs on the artist’s work include Cynthia Jaffee McCabe (compiler), Fernando Botero: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (1979); Carter Ratcliff, Botero (1980); Marlborough Gallery, Inc., Fernando Botero: Paintings (1996); Jean-Clarence Lambert, Botero Sculptures, ed. by Benjamín Villegas (1998); and Ana María Escallón, Botero: New Works on Canvas, trans. from Spanish (1997). A thorough catalog of his work is Edward J. Sullivan and Jean-Marie Tasset, Fernando Botero: Monograph & Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, 1975–1990, trans. from French (2000).

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Apr 15, 2026
Anniversary information added. Sep 11, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Apr 25, 2024
Updated with his death, added media. Sep 15, 2023
Removed media. Aug 16, 2022
Modified age appropriateness: Artnet - Biography of Fernando Botero. Feb 10, 2021
Add new Web site: Famous Painters - Fernando Botero. Jan 26, 2021
Add new Web site: Artnet - Biography of Fernando Botero. Jun 14, 2019
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Fernando Botero. Dec 19, 2016
Add new Web site: Don Quijote - Biography of Fernando Botero. Dec 19, 2016
Media added. Oct 18, 2016
Added information about artwork created after the 1980s. Jun 01, 2016
Add new Web site: The Museum of Modern Art - Biography of Fernando Botero. Nov 04, 2013
Add new Web site: RoGallery - Biography of Fernando Botero. Jan 29, 2013
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Fernando Botero. Oct 21, 2011
Media added. Jul 07, 2006
New article added. Feb 22, 2002
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