Botero sold his first work for two packs of cigarettes: now up for auction in Bogotá
'La Plegaria' (1949), the watercolour Fernando Botero swapped for two packets of cigarettes early in his career, is being auctioned in Bogotá with over 120 works by Latin American artists.
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