signed and dated lower right.
Botero's pictures, with influences from South America and pre-Columbian Art as well as modern artists like Diego Rivera, and from Europe, like Rubens and Velazquez, celebrate life.
The people he paints are the personification of life, not fat but ample, not shapeless but voluminous. And while he always depicts them in a slightly satirical way, he does not ridicule them. Botero likes people and that is visible in his paintings, which celebrate life.
