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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Eve. The Artist's Muse: A Curated Evening Sale | 18A | $****** - ****** | Lady Abdy |
paintings
180 x 133 cm (70.88 x 52.38 in)
oil on canvas
Lady Iya Abdy, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1935 and until at least 1984).
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, AG., Zürich.
Private collection, Norway; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 29 November 1988, lot 82.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balthus, November 1983-May 1984, pp. 132 and 344, no. 10/29 (illustrated and illustrated again in color) and p. 70, no. 8 (illustrated in color, p. 71) respectively
A. Artaud, Oeuvres complètes, Paris, 1964, vol. 5, p. 53.<br>J. Clair and V. Monnier, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works, Paris, 1995, p. 124, no. P80 (illustrated, p. 125).<br>C. Roy, Balthus, Boston, 1996, p. 96 (illustrated in color, p. 99).<br>N. F. Weber, Balthus: A Biography, New York, 1999, p. 258 (illustrated, p. 260).<br>J. Clair, Balthus, New York, 2001, p. 442 (illustrated in color, fig. 1).<br>S. Rewald, Balthus: Time Suspended, Paintings and Drawings, 1932-1960, Munich, 2007, p. 18 (illustrated, fig. 21).
