This is not just another thematic selection of paintings by Fernando Botero, the great Colombian artist whose work has traveled, like no other before him, the most diverse stages of the planet. This is a new series of 180 paintings "50 of them unpublished" grouped for the first time in a book, chosen by Botero himself, accompanied by four acetate inserts, also exclusively prepared by the artist and preceded by an extraordinary essay by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes on the painter's work. As this book shows, the bold and graceful female figures that primarily populate Botero's pictorial universe manage to transcend the limits of the canvas to become paradigms of a very special aesthetic vision.