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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 135 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | ÉTUDE POUR "LE RÊVE I" |
paintings
46 x 55.3 cm (18.11 x 21.77 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed Balthus and dated 54. (lower left); signed with the initials Bs and dated 54 (on the reverse)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist)
Sale: Christie's, London, June 29, 1981, lot 61
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above on January 9, 1985
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus, 1957, no. 14
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus, Paintings 1929-1961, 1962, no. 9
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The New Gallery, Balthus, 1964, no. 17
Jean Leymarie, Balthus, New York, 1982, p. 135
Balthus Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1983, no. 162, illustrated p. 366
Jean Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva, 1990, p. 137
Virginie Monnier & Jean Clair, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works, Paris, 1999, no. P.239, illustrated p. 168
Jean Clair, ed., Balthus, London, 2001, no. 2, illustrated p. 334
Signed Balthus and dated 54. (lower left); signed with the initials Bs and dated 54 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 by 21 3/4 in.
46 by 55.3 cm
Painted in 1954.
