Live Auction 2218Impressionist Modern Works on Paper
Christie’s roundel
Lot 134

Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, 1908-2001)

Etude pour Femme couchée

Closed4 November 2009

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USD 43,750

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Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, 1908-2001)
Etude pour Femme couchée
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil on buff paper
17¾ x 23½ in. (45.1 x 59.7 cm.)
Drawn in 1948

Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich.
Private collection, Florida (acquired from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 5 February 2004, lot 425.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work is a preparatory drawing for the painting by Balthus entitled Femme couchée of 1948 (Monnier, no. P 172), for which the model was Jacqueline Matisse.