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Fernando Botero was, until his death on Friday at age 91, one of the few living painters who was a true household name. Yet the Colombian’s ebullient zaftig figuration brazenly contravened the art-world zeitgeist, and as such he was for decades roundly disdained by art critics, who often misunderstood Boterismo as simple parody or merely resented its commercial charisma . . .
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