About This Artwork

Balthus (Baltusz Klossowski de Rola)
French, 1908–2001

Girl with Cat, 1937

Oil on board
34 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (87.6 x 77.5 cm)
Signed and dated, l.l.: "Balthus 1937"
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection, 1991.595

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus, 1962, no. 4 (ill.), detail on cover.

Chicago, Art Institute, Chicago Collectors, 1963, no cat. no., n. pag., as Young Girl with a Cat.

Chicago, Arts Club, Balthus, 1964, no. 5, pl. 5.

Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Library, The New Gallery, Balthus, 1964, no. 7, pl. 7.

New York, Public Education Association, Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art (1935–1944), 1966, no. 204 (ill.).

London, Tate Gallery, Balthus, 1968, no. 7 (ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Balthus in Chicago, August 1–November 9, 1980, no. 2 (ill.).

Paris, Centre George Pompidou, Balthus, November 5, 1983–January 23, 1984; p. 135, no. 13 (ill.), p. 346, no. 42 (ill.); traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 21–May 13, 1984, no. 17, pp. 41–42, fig. 66.

Publication History

Milton Gendel, “H. M. The King of Cats, a Footnote,” Art News 61 (April 1962), p. 37 (ill.).

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Erotic Art, 1966, hors cat. (ill. on cover).

Jean Leymarie, Balthus (New York, 1982), p. 130 (ill.).

Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus (London, 1983) pl. 17 (ill.).

Gary Indiana, “Balthus in Wonderland,” Art in America 72 (October 1984), p. 184 (ill.)

Ronald Paulson, Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting (New Brunswick and London, 1990), p. 168 (ill.).

Linda Nochlin, “Women, Art, and Power,” in Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey, eds., Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (Oxford, 1991), p. 42 (ill.).

Kisaragi, Takashina, Motoe (1994), pl. 8.

Roy (1996), p. 36.

Klossowski (1996), no. 22.

Ades, Dawn, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and New York: Art Institute of Chicago and Thames and Hudson, 1997), no. 3, pp. 6–8.

Monnier, Virginie, Balthus: catalogue raissoné de l’oeuvre (Paris, 1999), no. P101, p. 131.

Ownership History

Pierre Colle, Paris; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, June 14, 1937; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1963; given to the Art Institute, 1991.