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Property from a Private British Collection

Balthus

Portrait d'Alice

Lot Closed

October 19, 01:58 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private British Collection

Balthus

1908 - 2001

Portrait d'Alice


signed B. and dated Rome Nov. 62 (lower right)

pencil on paper

28.8 by 23.1cm., 11⅜ by 9⅛in.

Framed: 48.2 by 41.5cm., 19 by 16⅜in.

Drawn in Rome in November 1962.

E.V. Thaw & Co., New York

Georg Waechter Memorial Foundation (acquired from the above on 21st December 1963. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 2nd May 1996, lot 386)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

New York, E.V. Thaw & Co., Balthus, 1963, no. 53
Virginie Monnier & Jean Clair, Balthus, Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works, Paris, 1999, no. D994, illustrated p. 311