Featured FINALLY CHANGED BOTERO POSTER SO I COULD USE FRAME - AND FOUND IT'S A REAL BOTERO PAINTING?!

Discussion in 'Art' started by journeymagazine, Aug 16, 2019.

  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found this a long time ago at a local thrift store. It was framed, along with a 2nd one. I've tried selling it - even offering it for $25 with the 2nd one thrown in for free & still no takers.
    So I decided to swap it for a Cuban travel poster, BUT(!) when I took the cardboard backing off I saw this was a painting not a poster!
    Any possibility of it being a real Botero?
    PS - The 2nd one was just a reg poster
    Thank you!

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  2. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

  3. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

  4. Jivvy

    Jivvy the research is my favorite

    Can you show a super close-up (but in focus is critical) of a small area?

    I strongly suspect giclee.
     
  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Would a giclee have those sloppy paint edges?
    Like you see here:
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  6. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    I very much think it's a hand painted copy by someone other than Botero. If you compare journey's to the original - there are obvious differences.
     
  7. Jivvy

    Jivvy the research is my favorite

    Oh god, no.

    I am having an off day. :hilarious:

    You are absolutely right, of course.

    I'm not paying enough attention, today. :bucktooth::bucktooth::bucktooth:
     
  8. jsnggltt

    jsnggltt Well-Known Member

    That must have been an exciting discovery!
    Here's both yours and the original side by side:

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    I don't see enough difference between the two paintings to think it was a separate attempt (all the elements and colors too closely replicated) and the background elements of yours seems ill proportioned.

    I vote copy. A very time intensive detail oriented copy. Fun!
     
  9. Mark London

    Mark London Well-Known Member

    Factory Botero. Real painting but not "real Botero" as the title would suggest.
     
  10. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I bought a Botero at a shop some years ago and it is printed on canvas and, unless you knew better, you'd think it was an original.
     
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