Lot Essay
According to Sabine Rewald, the model is the poet Léna Leclerq seen in the rooms of the Château de Chassy in Morvan, France where she lived with Balthus during 1954.
Property from the Estate of
Elizabeth Berger
BALTHUS (BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI, b. 1908)
Details
BALTHUS (BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI, b. 1908)
Nu debout
signed with initial and dated bottom right B54--signed with initial and dated again on the reverse B54--oil on canvas
39½ x 32 in. (100.3 x 81.2 cm.)
Painted in 1954
Nu debout
signed with initial and dated bottom right B54--signed with initial and dated again on the reverse B54--oil on canvas
39½ x 32 in. (100.3 x 81.2 cm.)
Painted in 1954
Provenance
Montbrison, Paris
Anon. sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, June 19, 1963, lot 15 (titled Jeune femme nue dans un intérieur)
Anon. sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, June 19, 1963, lot 15 (titled Jeune femme nue dans un intérieur)
Literature
ed. D. Bozo, Balthus, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1983,
no. 137 (illustrated, p. 363)
no. 137 (illustrated, p. 363)