Étude pour "Le Peintre et son modèle" (recto); Étude pour "Nu couché" (verso)

Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, dit, 1908-2001)
Étude pour "Le Peintre et son modèle" (recto); Étude pour "Nu couché" (verso)
monogrammé 'Bs.' (verso; en bas au centre)
graphite sur papier (recto; verso)
27 x 29.7 cm.
Exécuté vers 1976-77

signed with the monogram 'Bs.' (verso; lower centre)
pencil on paper (recto; verso)
10⁵⁄₈ x 11³⁄₄ in.
Executed circa 1976-77

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

V. Monnier et J. Clair, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre complet, Paris, 1999, p. 378, nos. D 1375 et D 1377 (recto et verso illustrés).

New York, Dickinson Roundell Inc., Balthus, Drawings From the Collection of Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, novembre 2000, p. 30 et 38, no. 30 (recto et verso illustrés en couleurs, p. 30 et 39).

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