YEREVAN. - Colombian celebrity painter and sculptor Fernando Botero’s bronze sculpture Smoking Woman was installed near the Cafesjian Center for the Arts on Monday. The sculpture provoked great interest of public.

To note, the Center already has two works of the master, including the Cat and the Roman Warrior. Another Smoking Woman by the same author but made of white marble was sold at the Christie’s at $1.6 million in 2007.

Famous sculptor claims he wants to influence people through his distinctive style of exaggerated and enlarged human proportions.