Where Fine Art Resides

Emily Young

Cautha | 2012 | Clastic onyx

Our carefully curated collection of fine art and sculpture—many commissioned
especially for the Sensei Lānaʻi—rests gently within the island's natural embrace,
intriguing and awakening the creative spirit at every turn.

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Imperial Love, 1996 2006, corten steel

Fernando Botero

(1932–)

Fernando Botero’s signature style of creating sculptures with exaggerated and in ated features, suggesting political criticism and satire, coined a new term in the art world: “Boterismo.” The Columbian artist, well known for representing women, men, daily life, and historical events with wit and irony, began his career as a painter experimenting with proportion and size with his paintings of round, corpulent humans, before switching to sculpture in the 1970s.

Reclining Woman | 2003 | Bronze

Reclining Woman | 1993 | Bronze

Adam and Eve | 2003 | Bronze

Woman on Horse | 2011 | Bronze

This sculpture represents Botero’s whimsical proportions and style portraying a woman on a horse with almost balloon-like features. We are left to ponder who she might be: Helen of Troy, Lady Godiva, Joan of Arc, or simply a woman on a horse.

Donna Seduta | 2001 | Bronze

Seated peacefully under a massive banyan tree with her legs folded to one side, Donna Seduta looks demurely west across the Pacific Ocean, calmly holding an uneaten apple in her right hand.

Dancers | 2012 | Bronze

These two entwined figures show the typical Botero hallmarks of inflated forms and wide faces with small features. Locked in a formal pose, it looks more like they are engaged in a stiff waltz than a romantic tango.

Reclining Woman | 1992 | Bronze

Jane Puylagarde

Fragment of Life 10, 11, 12, 13 | 2018 | Acrylic on canvas

Guillaume Castel

Cocoface | 2016 | Weathering steel and paint

Castel challenges our notions of found objects in the natural world by employing corroding weathering steel as the warm brown exterior to the sheer lime green interior of what appears to be half of a faceted object.

Marc Quinn

Burning Desire | 2017 | Painted bronze

The sensuality found in nature is exquisitely highlighted in Marc Quinn’s monumental painted bronze sculpture representing an orchid, which invites us to experience it as a bee would in search of pollen or nectar.

Claude Lalanne

Pomme d'Hiver | 2008 | Bronze

Lalanne’s bronze sculpture Pomme d'Hiver or Winter Apple is a complement to Botero’s apple-holding Adam and Eve and Donna Seduta. In ancient myths and fairy tales, the golden apple distracts and entices; it is both stolen by and gifted to gods and goddesses, huntresses and hunters, heroes and heroines.

Baltasar Lobo

(1910–1993)

Baltasar Lobo was a Spanish artist known for his sculptures depicting the female form. He became part of the avant-garde in Paris, befriending Pablo Picasso and artist Henri Laurens and showing at galleries with Matisse and Leger. He was influenced by Paris’ modernist art scene as well as ancient art and sculpture, which is reflected in his abstract forms.