Fernando Botero’s Dogs

Man With Dog, 1989

In honor of the release of the new beautiful and comprehensive book, The Baroque World Of Fernando Botero by John Sillevis, David Elliott, and Edward J. Sullivan, I’ve curated a virtual exhibition of this renowned Colombian painter’s dog art works.

Excerpt from Booklist review:

“Sillevis aligns Botero’s baroque fullness of form with the magic realism of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Studies in beauty and terror, Botero’s monumental figures can be sensual, and many are large with pain and sorrow. Like Goya, Botero often depicts violence, but no works attain the moral weight of his Abu Ghraib series.”

Official Portrait of the Military Junta, 1971

Dog Turning A Corner, 1980

Homme au Piano, 2006

The Hunter, 1980

Family With Dog, 2006

Family, 2004

Abu Ghraib 6, 2004

Abu Ghraib 52, 2005

Dog sculpture at the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, Botero’s home town. (Courtesy of VeryBerryMojo’s Flickr site.)

The retrospective, The Baroque World Of Fernando Botero, runs from now until January 11, 2009 at The Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis.