Brother and Sister (Frere et Soeur)

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Object Details

Artist
Balthus, French, b. Paris, 1908–2001
Date
(1936)
Medium
Oil on paperboard
Dimensions
36 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (92.0 x 65.0 cm)
Collection Object Type
Painting
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.351

Galerie Pierre (Pierre Loeb), Paris to 17 January, 1945
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale, "Puritz et. al.," 17 January 1945, lot 139 (consigner according to sale catalogue: Galerie Pierre; according to Parke-Bernet records: Luzzatto [probably Silvia Luzzatto (Mrs. Pierre) Loeb]
Mr. Luzzatto [related to Silvia Luzzatto Loeb?], from 17 January 1945
Albert Loeb Gallery, New York, to 21 December 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, New York, 21 December 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
[ALBERT LOEB GALLERY, New York. "Balthus," Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, December 1963].
NEW GALLERY, Hayden Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Balthus," 10 February-2 March 1964, no. 3.
ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO. "Balthus," 21 September-28 October 1964, no. 3.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Kin and Communities: Selected Works from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 14 June-7 August 1977, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Images of Children," 17 August-4 November 1979, no. 11, no cat.
IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Dublin. "A Case for Painting," 26 June-2 November 1997, cat. no. 7, p. 122, colorpl., p. 102.
PALAZZO GRASSI, Venice. "Balthus." 9 September 2001-6 January 2002.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NY. “Balthus: Cats and Girls” 7 October 2013-20 January 2014.
TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM. “A Retrospective: Balthus and Japan” 19 April-22 June 2014, no. 20, color ill. pg. 62. TOUR: KYOTO MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ART, 5 July- 7 September 2014.

CLAIR, JEAN and VIRGINIA MONNIER. Balthus: Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Complet (Paris: Gallimard, 1999), pl. 94, pp. 128-129.
BOUVIER, RAPHAEL, ed. Balthus (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2018), color ill. p. 114.

Signature
Signed LL In Pencil: Balthus
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscription

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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