Colombian artist Fernando Botero, playful depicter of serious subjects, dies at 91
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Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero sits underneath one of his sculptures during a stroll with Medellin's Mayor Federico Gutierrez (not pictured) in Medellin, Colombia January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Fredy Builes/File photo
BOGOTA - 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 the age of 91.
"Fernando Botero has died, the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our virtues. The painter of our violence and of peace," Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. REUTERS
