Modern casting, signed on the plinth. Patinated bronze, height 41 cm, weight 6.2 kg. Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Colombia) is one of our most important artists. He created his own artistic style reminiscent of a mixture of folk imagination and naive painting, from which the Ballerina placed on a marble pedestal, connected to his further work, does not stand out. In addition to painting, Fernando Boter's significant talent has also manifested itself in sculpture, to which he has been intensively devoted since 1976. A characteristic feature of his sculptures and paintings is his figurative work, where the proportions of human figures and animals are oversized. Part of his view of the world is irony and grotesqueness, sometimes even social criticism. Above all, however, Botero depicts the human body, inspired by the work of Rubens, in excessive proportions, with which he creates a new, distinctive ideal of beauty. Botero has lived in New York since 1960, from where he moved to Paris in 1973, and often resides in Tuscany. He created many sculptures in Europe, including a series of monumental female nudes that were exhibited along the entire length of the Champs-Elysées in the early 1990s. Many of his remarkable sculptures are now located on the streets of New York, but also in many major cities in Europe. In the last three decades, his paintings and sculptures have gained international recognition at exhibitions around the world. In 2012, he received the award of the International Sculpture Center for his lifelong sculptural work. His art is collected by many important museums, corporations and private collectors.