Property from the Thomas Family Collection
Balthus
La Ferme à Chassy (Le Printemps)
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 900,000 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. 120-121, illustrated (titled La Ferme de Chassy)
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