80 Artists and 98 Works to Be Auctioned in Bogotá

Two very special works by Fernando Botero: "Alberto," a 1951 canvas of undeniable expressive power painted when he was only 19 years old, and "Unfinished Mural Project," created by the master in 1961 in New York.
This Thursday, May 29th, at 8:00 p.m., Bogotá Auctions will auction 98 pieces of modern and contemporary Colombian and Latin American art by eighty prestigious artists. The catalog brings together a careful selection of works from different decades of the 20th and 21st centuries, signed by these great masters of national and, in some cases, international art.

“In the section dedicated to landscape—a genre that was well-known in Colombia during the first half of the 20th century, but with important successors in the second half and so far in the 21st century—there are highlights: an iconic cloudscape by Gonzalo Ariza; a warm rural sunset, as the background for a portrait of a woman by the Antioquian master Marco Tobón Mejía, known primarily as a sculptor but also a painter; and a large-format jungle painting by Pedro Ruiz, in which the majesty of the jungle blends with dreamlike elements.

In the realm of still life, one of the traditional genres of painting, stand out some expressive red fruits by Andrés de Santa María, a pioneer of modern art in Colombia; a fish placed on a tray in front of a seascape by Cartagena's Cecilia Porras; fish on a table by Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, very successful in their framing, composition, and chromaticism; and vases of flowers by Alejandro Obregón and Freda Sargent, whose "This juxtaposition reveals a dialogue between these two artists, who were also husband and wife at one time," says Alessandro Armato, director of the Art Department at Bogotá Auctions.
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