Fernando Botero, Artist Whose Voluptuous Figures Transformed Latin American Art, Dies at 91

Fernando Botero, a Colombian artist whose paintings peopled with full-figured members of the elite achieved international fame, opening doors for many Latin Americans after him, has died at 91. Lina Botero, his daughter, told Caracol, a Colombian radio station, that her father died at his home in Monaco on Friday morning. He had been battling pneumonia.Botero’s paintings of Colombian governmental officials and clergy are now known the world over. He said that when he first started making t