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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 8 | $****** - ****** | La Patience |
paintings
161.6 x 164.2 cm (63.63 x 64.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed Balthus and dated 1943 (lower left)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1948)
Acquired from the above in 1964 by the present owner
Geneva, Galerie Georges Moos, Exposition Balthus , 1943, no. 11
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Balthus, peintures de 1936, 1946, no. 17
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus , 1949, no. 20
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Balthus , 1956-57, no. 15, pp. 1, 7 and 35, illustrated and illustrated on the title page (titled The Game of Patience )
New York, Decorative Arts Center, The Art in America Show , 1961
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus: Paintings 1929-1961 , 1962, no. 6, illustrated
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The New Gallery, Hayden Library, Balthus , 1964, no. 12
Arts Club of Chicago, Balthus , 1964, no. 12, illustrated
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1915-1965 , 1965-66
London, Tate Gallery, Balthus , 1968, no. 20, pp. 20, 38 and 60, illustrated
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Balthus in Chicago , 1980, no. 3
Paris, Centre George Pompidou and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balthus , 1983-84, no. 28 (Paris) and no. 27 (New York), pp. 59, 69, 160-61, 290, and 351 (Paris) and pp. 108-09 (New York), illustrated in color
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Balthus: Time Suspended , 2007, no. 19, pp. 80-81 and 162, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago , 2013-14, pp. 10 and 131, illustrated in color
Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale and Kunstforum Wien, Balthus: Balthasar Klossowski de Rola , 2016, pp. 61-62, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the covers
Arts Digest , vol. 31, issue 4-10, p. 7
Pierre-Jean Jouve, "Balthus," La Nef , vol. I, no. 3, September 1944, p. 145
René Char, "Balthus, ou le dard dans la fleur," Cahiers d"art , vols. 20-21, 1945-46, p. 205 illustrated (in its first state)
Robin Ironside, "Balthus," Horizon , April 1948, p. 266, illustrated
James Thrall Soby, "Balthus," The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art , vol. 24, no. 3, 1956-57, p. 7
Edith Hoffman, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions, New York," Burlington Magazine , vol XCIX. no. 99, February 1957, p. 68 (titled The Game of Patience )
Cleve Gray, “The Art In America Show,” Art in America , vol. 49, no. 4, 1962, p. 97, illustrated
Connoisseur , March 1962, p. CXIII
John Russell, “Master of the Nubile Adolescent,” Art in America , no. 55, November-December 1967, pp. 98-103, illustrated
Keith Roberts, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions” Burlington Magazine , vol. CX, no. 788, November 1968, fig. 60, pp. 644-45, illustrated
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 1970, p. 273, illustrated
Jean Leymarie, Balthus , New York, 1979, p. 131
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus: Paintings , London, 1983, no. 31, p. 96, illustrated in color
Jean Clair, “Eros et Cronos, Le rite et le mythe dans l"oeuvre de Balthus,” Revue de l"Art , no. 63, 1984, p. 89
Sanford Schwartz, "The Art World," The New Yorker , 7 May 1984, p. 126
Fundació Joan Miró, A Joan Miró: collecció permanent d"art contemporani en homenatge a Joan Miró , Barcelona, 1986, p. 90 (titled El Soliari )
Exh. Cat., Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Balthus , 1993, p. 47, illustrated
Margherita Andreotti, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, p. 174; p. 175, illustrated in color
Koharu Kisaragi, Shuji Takashina and Kunio Motoe, Balthus , Tokyo, 1994, pl. 21
Claude Roy, Balthus , Paris, 1996, pp. 18 and 20, illustrated in color
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus , London, 1996, pl. 41, illustrated in color
Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works , New York, 1999, no. P140, p. 142, illustrated
John Russell, Matisse: Father and Son , New York, 1999, p. 140
Nathalie Castagné, trans., Balthus à contre-courant: entretiens avec Costanzo Costantini , Paris, 2001, p. 83
Jean Clair, ed., Balthus , New York, 2001, fig. 8, pp. 69 and 286-87, illustrated in color
Mieke Bal, Balthus: Works and Interview , Barcelona, 2008, pp. 130-31, illustrated in color
Balthus, Vanished Splendors: A Memoir , New York, 2002
Exh. Cat., New York, The Pierport Morgan Library, Pierre Matisse and His Artists , New York, 2002, pp. 80 and 149
Peter Berger, Balthus, portraits privés , Lausanne, 2008, p. 88
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balthus: Cats and Girls , 2013-14, no. 19, pp. 23-24, 100-01 and 26, illustrated in color (titled The Game of Patience )
Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Balthus , 2018, p. 109
Property Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Balthus
1908 - 2001
La Patience
signed Balthus and dated 1943 (lower left)
oil on canvas
63 ⅝ by 64 ⅝ in. 161.5 by 164.2 cm.
Executed in 1943 and 1946-48.
