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An obituary of Colombian art legend Fernando Botero, the larger-than-life painter of the round, who died in Monaco. 

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world's richest artists, has died at 91. The artist's bodacious subjects were portrayed in everyday situations - a corpulent naked woman lounging on a bed or a stout man riding a humorously out-sized horse - but served the artist's more serious goal of transporting the reader to what he called a "superlative dimension", where commonp

Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him...

At 90 years old, Fernando Botero is one of Colombia's most recognized artists in the world. One of his sculptures rests on Plaza Santo Domingo in Cartagena.

Fernando Botero Angulo is so renowned for the exaggerated contours of his figures that his signature style earned its own noun: Boterismo. In his paintings...