Balthus

Petit paysage du Morvan

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15,000 - 20,000 EUR

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Description

Property from a Private French Collection

Balthus

1908 - 2001

Petit paysage du Morvan

signed Balthus and dated 53 (on the reverse)

oil on panel

24 x 27 cm; 9½ x 10¾ in.

Executed in 1953.

Frédérique Tison, Chassy

Pierre Berès, Paris (acquired from the above in 1960)

Sotheby's London, 30 November 1993, lot 25 (consigned by the above)

Private collection, France (acquired at the above sale)

Private collection, France (by descent from the above)

Artcurial, Paris, 22 March 2012, lot 291 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

London, Tate Gallery, Balthus, 1968, no. 35 (titled Paysage)

Château de Ratilly, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Balthus, Barelier, Rouan, 1981

Ornans, Musée Gustave Courbet, Balthus dans la Maison de Courbet, 1992, no. 30, illustrated in colour

Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre complet, Paris, 1999, no. P 222, p. 164, illustrated

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