LONDON.- Fernando Botero’s Adam and Eve is the top lot at the Bonhams sale of the Walid Juffali Collection on 26 March 2018 at Bishopsgate House in Surrey, UK. The pair of monumental bronze sculptures are estimated at £600,000-800,000. There are also two other sculptures by Botero offered in the sale Reclining Nude (2003) and Reclining Nude (1993) each estimated at £350,000 - 550,000.

Born in Medellín, Columbia in 1932, Fernando Botero is considered the most significant and recognizable living Latin American artist. Famed for his use of volume to present figures in exaggerated form across painting and sculpture, Botero has developed a unique style – coined Boterismo – that draws inspiration from traditions in Latin American Folk Art, as well as the dense shapes and bold movements of European Baroque Art.

The Adam and Eve sculptures stand at the heart of the Juffali estate at Bishopsgate House in Surrey, on the edge of the Windsor Great Park in England. Made in 2003, in an edition of three, Adam and Eve, show Botero’s longstanding fascination with the biblical story about the Garden of Eden – a theme the artist has returned to in several paintings throughout his career.

Botero’s voluminous forms in sculpture have become popular choices for public squares and buildings across the world – the two other editions of Adam and Eve stand in the Time Warner Center in New York’s Columbus Circle and Hotel Michael in Singapore. This edition of Adam and Eve will be offered alongside two further bronzes by Botero – Reclining Nude from 1993 and 2003, each estimated at £350,000-550,000.

Bonhams Head of House Sales, Charlie Thomas said: ‘Fernando Botero is undoubtedly one of the great figures of Latin American Art and we are delighted to be offering three of his sculptures as part of the Walid Juffali Collection sale at Bishopsgate House. This is an unusual, countryside setting for Botero’s work, but one where the scale and beauty of the works can certainly be fully appreciated.’