Contemporary Auction
Contemporary Auction
From an Artist Collection
Balthus
L’enfant gourmand
Auction Closed
April 20, 06:06 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Balthus
1908 - 2001
L’enfant gourmand
oil on cardboard laid on board
Executed in 1940
(olio su cartone applicato su tavola
Eseguito nel 1940)
cm 91,8x72,6; inches 36.14 by 28.58
Framed: cm 97x78x2,5; inches 38.18 by 30.70 by 0.98
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Galleria Galatea, Turin
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1970 (Ivi acquistato dalla famiglia dell'attuale proprietario nel 1970)
Jean Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva 1978, pl. 5
Jean Leymarie, Balthus, Geneva 1982, pl. pp. 29, 129
Exhibition catalogue, Balthus, MNAM CNACGP, Paris 1983, p. 348, n. 51
Xiaosheng Xing, « He … on the subject of the Exhibition in China of the Works by Balthus”, exhibition catalogue, Balthus, Hong-Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1995; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing 1995; Fine Art Museum, Taipei 1995, p. 13
Jean Clair, Virginie Monnier, Balthus. Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre complet, Éditions Gallimard 1999, pp. 138-139, n. P 125, illustrated (described as oil on canvas)
Exhibition catalogue, Balthus, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2001-2002, p. 274, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Des Beaux Arts, Balthus. Peintures de 1936 à 1946, 1946, n. 7 (with title Le Bébé gourmand, dated 1939)