Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, dit, 1908-2001)
Étude pour "La Patience" (recto); Étude pour "Jeune fille endormie" (verso)
monogrammé vingt-deux fois 'B' (recto); daté et inscrit 'Fribourg 1943' (verso)
graphite et estompe sur papier teinté (recto; verso)
25.3 x 33.2 cm.
Exécuté en 1943

signed with the monogram 22 times 'B' (recto); dated and inscribed 'Fribourg 1943' (verso)
pencil and estompe on tinted paper (recto; verso)
10 x 13¹⁄₈ in.
Executed in 1943

Antoinette de Watteville, Fleur d’Eau, Rolle (don de l’artiste).
Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.

V. Monnier et J. Clair, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre complet, Paris, 1999, p. 228, no. D 496 (recto illustré) et p. 229, no. D 499 (verso illustré).

New York, Dickinson Roundell Inc., Balthus, Drawings from the Collection of Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, novembre 2000, p. 15, no. 6 (illustré en couleurs).
Rossinière, Fondation Balthus, Les Desseins de Balthus, juin-septembre 2005, p. 47 (illustré en couleurs).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Balthus, 100e anniversaire, juin-novembre 2008, p. 204, no. 98 (illustré en couleurs).
Autun, Musée Rolin, Balthus ou le temps du sablier, mars-juin 2011, p. 35, no. 23 (illustré en couleurs).
Tokyo, Metropolitan Art Museum et Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Rétrospective Balthus, avril-septembre 2014, p. 149, no. D21 (illustré en couleurs).

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