Étude pour "Nu couché" (recto; verso)

Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, dit, 1908-2001)
Étude pour "Nu couché" (recto; verso)
monogrammé 'Bs.' (recto; en bas à gauche)
graphite sur papier (recto; verso)
27 x 30 cm.
Exécuté vers 1976-77

signed with the monogram 'Bs.' (recto; lower left)
pencil on paper (recto; verso)
10⁵⁄₈ x 11⁷⁄₈ in.
Executed circa 1976-77

Don de l’artiste à son fils, propriétaire actuel, vers 1992.

V. Monnier et J. Clair, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre complet, Paris, 1999, p. 379, no. D 1381 (recto illustré).

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Balthus, mai-août 1993 (hors catalogue).
Rome, Accademia Valentino, Omaggio a Balthus, octobre 1996-janvier 1997, p. 142 (illustré en couleurs; daté circa '1973'; titré 'Nu allongé').
New York, Dickinson Roundell Inc., Balthus, Drawings From the Collection of Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, novembre 2000, p. 38, no. 29 (recto; illustré en couleurs).
Autun, Musée Rolin, Balthus ou le temps du sablier, mars-juin 2011 (hors catalogue).

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