An auction in Bogotá

An auction in Bogotá will offer more than one hundred works of art by artists such as Botero, Obregón, and Arango. More than one hundred works of modern and contemporary Latin American art by renowned artists such as Colombian Fernando Botero will be offered at an auction next Thursday in Bogotá, the Bogotá Auctions house announced in a statement on Wednesday.

The exhibition will also include pieces by artists such as Débora Arango, Emma Reyes, Beatriz González, Alejandro Obregón, Luis Caballero, Santiago Cárdenas, Antonio Caro, Lucy Tejada, Miler Lagos, and Jim Amaral, among other leading figures in regional art.

Among the featured lots will be a large-format oil painting by Botero, dated 1956 and from a branch of the artist's family.

The piece 'Untitled' is considered a testament to his formative period and the shift that Colombian art was undergoing in the mid-20th century, when young artists were moving away from the Mexican muralist model and towards the European neo-avant-garde.

The work reflects "the aesthetic dialogue that Botero maintained at that time with Alejandro Obregón, leader of the national avant-garde and a central figure in the consolidation of Colombian modernism after his return from France in 1955," the report added.

The auction will also include Botero's 'Mona Lisa as a Child,' which in the early 1960s led to his work being acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA).

The exhibition's historical overview will encompass early landscapes by artists such as Gaston Lelarge, Guillermo Wiedemann, and Luis Alberto Acuña, as well as modernist expressions from the 1950s and 60s, and conceptual and geometric works by figures such as Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Fanny Sanín, Antonio Caro, Bernardo Salcedo, and Manolo Vellojín.

Charlotte Pieri, director of Bogotá Auctions, emphasized in the press release that the exhibition will allow viewers to appreciate works that represent "decisive moments in Colombian and Latin American art," from social Americanism to neo-figuration and the abstract and conceptual explorations of the late 20th century.

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