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Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Balthus

1908 - 2001

 

Le Vase bleu

signed with the monogram (upper left)

oil and sand on canvas

89.5 by 69.9 cm. 35¼ by 27½ in.

Executed circa 1963-64.

Frédérique Tison, Chassy (the artist's niece)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Artcurial, Paris, Balthus à Chassy. Collection Frédérique Tison, 8 December 2020, lot 136 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Marseille, Musée Cantini, Balthus, 1973, no. 43 (titled Nature morte and dated 1964)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balthus, 1983-84, no. 225, p. 379, illustrated (dated 1973)

Jean Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva, 1990, p. 142, illustrated (dated 1973)

Jean Clair, Virginie Monnier, Balthus, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre complet, Paris, 1999, no. P 323, p. 190, illustrated