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Balthus

Le Gottéron

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May 20, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Balthus

1908 - 2001


Le Gottéron

signed Balthus (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

45 ½ by 39 ½ in.

115 by 101 cm.

Executed in Le Gottéron in 1943 and reworked after 1945.

Henri Bernstein, Paris 

Galerie Henriette Gomès, Paris (acquired by 1972)

Richard Hedreen, Seattle

André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York 

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1987) 

Guy Loudmer Paris, 19 November 1989, lot 69

Paul Yeou Chichong, Tahiti (acquired at the above sale) 

Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2022, lot 378 (consigned by the above) 

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Geneva, Galerie Georges Moos, Balthus, 1943, no. 9, n.p., illustrated in an earlier state

Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Balthus: Peintures de 1936 à 1946, 1946, no. 16 (titled Paysage d'automne)

Paris, Galerie Henriette Gomès, Balthus, 1966

London, Tate Gallery, Balthus, 1968, no. 22, p. 61, illustrated

Venice, 36a Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte Venezia, Capolavori della pittura del XX secolo 1900-1945, 1972, pp. 46-47, illustrated in color

Marseille, Musée Cantini, Balthus, 1973, no. 13, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Henriette Gomès, Paysages et natures mortes de Balthus, 1977

Paris, Galerie Henriette Gomès, Balthus, 1983-84 

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Balthus, 1993, pp. 14-15, illustrated in color

Tokyo Station Gallery, Balthus, 1993-94, pl. 20, illustrated in color

Rome, Accademia Valentino, Omaggio a Balthus, 1996-97, pp. 80-81, illustrated in color

René Char, “Balthus, ou le dard dans la fleur,” Cahiers d'Art, vol. XX-XXI, 1945-46, Paris, p. 198, illustrated in an earlier state (titled Paysage d'automne)

Jean Leymarie, Balthus, New York, 1979, no. 12, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Balthus, 1983, no. 70, p. 351, illustrated

Claude Roy, Balthus, Paris, 1996, pp. 130 and 132-33, illustrated in color

Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus, London and Paris, 1996, no. 33, illustrated in color

Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet, Paris, 1999, no. P 143, p. 143, illustrated