Jasia Reichardt, in Art International (July-Aug. 1983), Via Maraini, 17-A, Lugano, Switzerland (CH-6900).
Colombian artist Fernando Botero's idiosyncratic paintings of fat peo- ple have won him a measure of fame in recent years. Yet the artist's ob- session with inflated figures remains a mystery.
Since his first "fat mode" painting in the mid-1950s. Botero's work has centered on depictions of overblown "bishops, generals, tarts, aunts, and ordinary citizens" from his native...