Still Life with a Vase of Flowers

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, dit Balthus (1908 Paris - 2001 La Rossinière)

1958

Pencil on paper ; signed at the lower right "Balthus" ; 34.7 x 26.4 cm

Provenance :

Château de Chassy, Frédérique Tison collection ; Paris, Artcurial, 8th December 2020.

Exhibitions :

Balthus, drawings and watercolors (New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1967, n°18) ; Balthus (London, Tate Gallery, 1968, n°77) ; Balthus, drawings, watercolors, oils (Andros, Museum of Modern Art, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation,1990, n°61) ; Balthus at the Villa Medici (Rome, Villa Medici, 1990) ; Balthus - Un atelier dans le Morvan 1953-1961 (Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts, 1999, n°48).

Bibliography :

X.Xing, Balthus, Exhibition Catalogue, Hong Kong, Pekin, Taipei, 1995 ; J.Clair, V.Monnier, Balthus, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet, Gallimard, Paris, 1999, n°D931, reproduced p.30.