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60 - Klossowski de Rola, known as BALTHUS
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Estimate €80,000 - €120,000
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Klossowski de Rola, known as BALTHUS Sleeping Nude – 1967 Charcoal on elephant-skin paper Signed with the initial ‘B’ at the bottom centre 50 x 69.6 cm Provenance: Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York Collection of Mr and Mrs Donald B. Straus, New York Donated to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967 Auction, Paris, Christie’s, Sale from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 23 March 2017, lot 118 Acquired at this auction by the current owner Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection Exhibitions: New York, The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Works on Paper’, March–June 1973 London, The British Museum; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, ‘A Century of Modern Drawing from the Museum of Modern Art, New York’, June 1982 – April 1983, no. 9, p. 42, reproduced fig. 105. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ‘Balthus’, January–March 1996 Bibliography: J. Clair and V. Monnier, *Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works*, Gallimard, Paris, 1999, no. D 1091, reproduced in black and white on p. 329 Klossowski de Rola, known as BALTHUS 50 x 69.6 cm
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About the sale The Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 4:00 PM
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