Lot 67
  • 67

Balthus

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 CHF
bidding is closed

Description

  • Balthus
  • Jeune fille nue (recto)Jeune fille nue (verso)
  • initaled B upper left
  • pen on paper
  • 31.5 x 21.5 cm

Provenance

International private collection

Literature

Jean Clair/Virginie Mounier, Balthus. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2000, no. D 570, ill.

Condition

Recto: Has not been unframed. Paper is slightly brownish and has fine foxing all over the work. Paper is slightly wavy and creases, mainly visible along the right margin and upper left and right corner. Verso: Has not been unframed. Paper is slightly brownish and wavy, fine foxing in the lower right quadrant. There are fine creases in the upper right and left corner and along the left margin. Two small tears along the left margin. Otherwise good condition.
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