Untitled

c. 1972

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

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Balthus
Title: Untitled
Origin: France
Date: 1967–1977
Medium: Graphite and charcoal on tan elephant paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower left: "Bs" (artist's monogram) / "Michelina/Montecalvello"
Dimensions: 999 × 697 mm
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.305
Copyright: © Balthus

Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 9, cat. 4 (color ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Balthus in Chicago,” 1980, cat. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection,” 1986, pamphlet no. 3.

Sold by Fréderique Tison to Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1977 [letter from the Galerie Claude Bernard to Adam Jolles of April 6, 1995, in curatorial file]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1968.

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