This book reproduces all existing works by Fernando Botero in the Museo Nacional de Colombia and the donation of his paintings on violence" . "I am not going to profit from Colombia's pain," declared Fernando Botero when announcing his decision not to put up for sale any of the paintings he has created in recent years on the subject of terror and violence in the country, motivated by "the moral obligation to leave a testimony about an irrational moment in our history," as he confesses. Consequently, the artist decided to donate the collection of these paintings—"twenty-three" oils and twenty-five drawings, mostly unpublished—to the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, an institution that has been a frequent recipient of his generosity since early in the painter's career. With texts by Beatriz González and Santiago Londoño Vélez, this catalog "which has an independent English version, distributed worldwide by Rizzoli International of New York," reproduces in color all the donations and other paintings by Fernando Botero in the Museo Nacional de Colombia, a privileged place where the impressive collection, of nearly 70 works, can be appreciated in the appropriate environment to understand its evolution. As the Italian critic Vittorio Sgardi said, quoted by Beatriz González in her text, the Museo Nacional de Colombia is "the best way to understand Botero."