Balthus, Nu endormi, 1969-70

Charcoal on paper

27 9/16 x 39 7/16 in
70 x 100.1 cm

Signed with initials lower right: Bs

Provenance

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
(Probably) E. V. Thaw, New York
Private Collection, United States, c. 1970s
Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 5 May 2009, lot 23 (estimate: $300,000-400,000; sold for: $902, 500 Premium)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Sale: Sotheby's Paris, Surrealism and Its Legacy, 16 March 2022, lot 23 (estimate: €900,000-1,200,000; sold for: €1,087,700 [$1,195,931 USD] Premium)
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibitions

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Balthus: dessins et aquarelles, 1971, no. 63.

Literature

X. Xing, Balthus, Shanghai, 1995, n.p.
V. Monnier & J. Clair, Balthus, Catalogue raisonné of the Complete Works, Paris & New York, 1999, no. D 1149, illustrated p. 339.