LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and charcoal on canvas

Measurements:

63.78 in. (162.00 cm.) (height) by 51.06 in. (129.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Henriette Gomès, Paysages et natures mortes de Balthus, June-July 1977.

Literature:

J. Leymarie, Balthus, New York, 1982, p. 149 (illustrated; dated 1960). Balthus, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1983, p. 374, no. 200 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions). C. Roy, Balthus, Boston, 1996, p. 122 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions). V. Monnier and J. Clair, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works, Paris, 1999, p. 186, no. P305 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions). J. Clair, ed., Balthus, New York, 2001, p. 378 (illustrated, fig. 1).

Provenance:

Galerie Henriette Gomès, Paris (by 1977). Private collection, France. Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva. Acquired from the above by the late owners, March 1987.