Fernando Botero XXL

Fernando Botero spent more than seventy-five years perfecting a single, unmistakable language: rotund, sensual forms swollen with volume, rendered in pure color and almost invisible brushstrokes, so that even a still life, an animal, or a landscape breathes with the same sumptuous weight. Across more than 3,000 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 12,000 drawings, the Colombian master reimagined the world in his own image, recasting even the Mona Lisa and Christ himself in his unmistakable style. This Assouline XXL edition meets that ambition at its own scale. Rather than move chronologically, its 208 pages, the highest page count of any XXL title, and 170 illustrations are grouped by category, letting Botero's world unfold on its own terms. A silk hardcover mounted on wood boards, its spine wrapped in leather, opens to a cover pairing two of his paintings, while a booklet of textured, hand-sewn paper holds the introduction and every caption. The volume rests on a custom wood stand shaped like a painter's easel, its colors drawn from his own palette, so the book stands less like an object than a private exhibition. Each copy is numbered out of 100 and arrives with its own tool care set and a reference booklet detailing the artwork within. For the collector who wants Botero's gallery brought home entire, and for anyone drawn to his radiant, oversized figures, this is the definitive volume: proof that, as Botero himself believed, a true style is never finished, only deepened.