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Article: Pleasingly Plump: Fernando Botero's Mirthful Sculpture
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- The Washington Post
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- September 26, 1996
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Within eyeshot of the White House, nude, voluptuous women now
preen and recline languorously as they gaze at the sky. Pudgy
bureaucrats in business suits sit mock-heroically astride bronze
horses, tweaking the sculptural tradition that is prevalent in this
city strewn with equestrian statues of liberators and heroes. This
new crop of oddball squatters, made of bronze and weighing upward of
1,100 pounds apiece, has set up camp for a month under the old elms
along Constitution Avenue, between 15th and 17th streets NW.
The 18 chubby, endearing creatures are part of "Botero in
Washington," a vagabond show of monumental sculpture by Latin
America's most famous living artist, Fernando ...