Botero Women

This is not just another thematic selection of paintings by Fernando Botero, the great Colombian artist whose work has traveled, like no other before him, to the most diverse settings on the planet. This is a new series of 180 paintings "50 of them unpublished" grouped for the first time in a book, chosen by Botero himself, accompanied by four acetate inserts, also prepared exclusively by the artist and precedents of an extraordinary essay by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes about the painter's work.

As this book shows, the round and graceful female figures that primarily populate Botero's pictorial universe manage to transcend the limits of the canvas to become paradigms of a very special aesthetic vision.