Property from the Thomas Family Collection
Balthus
La Ferme à Chassy (Le Printemps)
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November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Thomas Family Collection
Balthus
1908 - 2001
La Ferme à Chassy (Le Printemps)
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 58. (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 ⅝ by 35 in.
116 by 89 cm.
Executed in 1958.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above by 1977)
Thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus, Paintings and Drawings, 1934 to 1977, 1977, no. 8
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balthus, 1984, no. 197, p. 373, illustrated
Jean Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva, 1982, p. 148, illustrated (titled Farm at Chassy, Summer)
Jean Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva, 1990, p. 152, illustrated
Claude Roy, Balthus, Paris, 1996, pp. 120-21, illustrated (titled La Ferme de Chassy)
Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet, Paris, 1999, no. P298, pp. 184-85, illustrated
Claude Roy, Balthus, Paris, 2008, pp. 120-21, illustrated (titled La Ferme de Chassy)
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