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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 4, 2013 | Christie's | New York | A Dialogue Through Art: Works from the Jan Krugier Collection Evening Sale | 52 | $****** - ****** | Colette assise |
paintings
81.2 x 64.8 cm (31.97 x 25.51 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Balthus 54' (lower left); signed with monogram and dated '54' (on the reverse)
Albert Skira, Geneva.
Private collection, New York. Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London.
Jan Krugier, acquired from the above, 1989.
Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Balthus, February-March 1956. Turin, Galeria d'arte Galatea, Balthus, April 1958. Rome, Galerie L'Obelisco, Balthus, May 1958, no. 3. Paris, Galerie Artcurial, Le Belvédère Mandiargues: André Pieyre de Mandiargues et l'art du XXe siècle, May-July 1990, p. 194 (illustrated in color, p. 112). New York, Stiebel Modern, In Human Terms, May-June 1991, pp. 7 and 22 (illustrated in color, p. 23). Ornans, Musée Gustave Courbet, Balthus dans la maison de Courbet, July-September 1992, no. 31 (illustrated). Tokyo Station Gallery, Balthus, November 1993-January 1994, pp. 64 and 126, no. 15 (illustrated in color, p. 65). Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Balthus, January-March 1996, p. 152 (illustrated in color). Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi, Da Van Gogh a Bacon: Roberto Tassi e i pittori, Ottocento e Novecento in Europa, September-December 1998, p. 155 (illustrated in color). Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Balthus: un atelier dans le Morvan, 1953-1961, June-September 1999, p. 68, no. 22 (illustrated in color, p. 69). Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, August-November 2000, p. 418 (illustrated in color, p. 116). Vevey, Musée Jenisch, Balthus: de Piero della Francesca à Alberto Giacometti, May-August 2002, p. 128, no. 18 (illustrated in color, p. 126).
G. Régnier, Balthus, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1983, p. 362, no. 134 (illustrated). J. Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva, 1990, p. 129 (illustrated). J. Clair and V. Monnier, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet, Paris, 1999, p. 164, no. P225 (illustrated, p. 165). C. Carrillo de Albornoz, Balthus, Paris, 2000, p. 78 (illustrated in color).
