Fernando Botero is profiled in W Magazine this week, as the artist prepares to release a new book, looking back on his early work and development as an artist.  “When I was very young, like 13 or 14 years old, I was fascinated by the [Alberto] Vargas girls I saw in an Esquire magazine,” he says.  “I did some copies in watercolor. Perhaps they were the first things that I did. Then I discovered real art and forgot about Vargas.”
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