Paperback This book-catalog "which reproduces all existing works of Fernando Botero in the Museo Nacional de Colombia and the recent donation of his paintings about violence" is also a premiere of the new line that Villegas Editores aims to promote to bring its books to an increasingly larger audience, both inside and outside the country. Without sacrificing quality for larger print runs, but with a sensible reduction in binding costs by opting for softcover, this initiative will benefit the reader who will be able to acquire these works at truly modest prices. It is, therefore, a collector's item. "I am not going to profit from Colombia's pain," declared Fernando Botero when announcing his decision not to put any of the paintings he has made in recent years on the theme of terror and violence in the country up for sale, 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the artist decided to donate the collection of these paintings "twenty-three oils and twenty-five drawings, mostly unpublished" to the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, an institution that has been a frequent recipient of his generosity since very early in the painter's career. With texts by Beatriz Gonzalez and Santiago Lonsoño 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 setting to understand its evolution. As Italian critic Vittorio Sgardi noted, quoted by Beatriz González in her text, the Museo Nacional de Colombia is "the best way to understand Botero."