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Lucia Blasco

Once sold for two packs of smokes: Historic Botero painting up for auction in Bogotá

Long before he became one of the world’s best-known Latin American artists, Fernando Botero sold his first work for two packets of cigarettes.

More than seven decades later, and almost three years after his death at the age of 91, that youthful watercolour is returning to the art market in a sale in Bogotá.

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