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Artwork © Archiv Franz West. Photo: Annik Wetter

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Art en Vieille-Ville Genève

Thursday, November 2, 2017, 6–9pm
19 place de Longemalle, Geneva
www.avv.ch

Galleries located in the Vieille-Ville will be open to visitors after hours. Franz West: Works 1970–2017 will be on view at our Geneva gallery.

Artwork © Archiv Franz West. Photo: Annik Wetter

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Balthus, Passage du Commerce-Saint-André, 1952–54 © Balthus, 2021

Upcoming Publication

Balthus
Catalogue Raisonné

L’Atelier de Balthus, in partnership with Gagosian, announces the preparation of a two-volume catalogue raisonné of Balthus’s work to be published in 2023. Edited under the direction of Yves Guignard, this updated edition of the inaugural catalogue raisonné first issued in 1999 by Jean Clair and Virginie Monnier will incorporate in-depth archival research about Balthus’s artistic legacy. The newly designed publication will unveil recently discovered artworks as well as include comprehensive provenance and exhibition histories accompanied by full-color reproductions of Balthus’s painting oeuvre, related drawings, and studies.

Collectors with a previously unauthenticated or unknown work by Balthus in their possession are invited to contact the editorial team at contact@fonds-balthus.com to submit the work for potential inclusion in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné.

Those whose works were featured in the 1999 catalogue raisonné are requested to submit updated provenance and exhibition history details as well as high-resolution digital images for inclusion in the new publication before December 1, 2021.

Balthus, Passage du Commerce-Saint-André, 1952–54 © Balthus, 2021

Museum Exhibitions

Installation view, Balthus dessinateur, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 3–April 23, 2023. Artwork © Balthus

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Balthus dessinateur

February 3–April 23, 2023
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
www.mcba.ch

This exhibition, whose title translates to Balthus the Draftsman, features a selection of drawings by Balthus, placed by the artist’s family on long-term loan with the museum. Drawing lay at the heart of the artist’s practice as both a system for understanding and analyzing the world around him and a crucial step in making his paintings. The works are simple, fragmentary, private studies that help reveal his creative process.

Installation view, Balthus dessinateur, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 3–April 23, 2023. Artwork © Balthus

Balthus, Paysage de Monte Calvello, 1978 © Balthus

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Découpage
A Labour of Love

July 1–October 17, 2021
Tarmak22, Gstaad Saanen Airport, Switzerland
www.tarmak22.com

Découpage presents more than 150 cut-paper works made in the nineteenth and twentieth century by Swiss masters. Tracing the origins and development of the paper cutout, the exhibition honors the craft’s history and its Swiss heritage while creating a dialogue with a selection of contemporary artworks brought to Gstaad by collaborators including Gagosian. Work by Balthus, Richard Prince, and Setsuko is included.

Balthus, Paysage de Monte Calvello, 1978 © Balthus

Balthus, Thérèse, 1938 © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Balthus

February 19–May 26, 2019
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
www.museothyssen.org

This exhibition brings together more than fifty important paintings by Balthus from every phase of his oeuvre. The starting point of the show is his monumental painting Passage du Commerce-Saint-André (1952–54), which epitomizes the artist’s intensive engagement with the dimensions of space and time in the image, and with their relationship to figure and object. This exhibition has traveled from the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel.

Balthus, Thérèse, 1938 © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Balthus, The Card Game, 1948–50, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Balthus

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Balthus

September 2, 2018–January 1, 2019
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch

The Fondation Beyeler brings together more than fifty important paintings by Balthus from every phase of his oeuvre. The starting point of the show is his monumental painting Passage du Commerce-Saint-André (1952–54), which epitomizes the artist’s intensive engagement with the dimensions of space and time in the image, and with their relationship to figure and object.

Balthus, The Card Game, 1948–50, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Balthus

Alberto Giacometti, Aïka, 1959, Fondation Beyeler © Succession Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris + ADAGP, Paris) 2017

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Derain, Balthus, Giacometti
Friendship among Artists

February 1–May 6, 2018
Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
www.fundacionmapfre.org

The exhibition, with more than one hundred works, traces the artistic friendship of these three major artists, who met in 1933 and whose lives and works would intersect over the ensuing decades. Beyond sharing personal affinities, the three artists played with rules of representation, style, and technique. This exhibition has traveled from the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Alberto Giacometti, Aïka, 1959, Fondation Beyeler © Succession Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris + ADAGP, Paris) 2017

Balthus, The Street, 1933, Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Derain, Balthus, Giacometti
Une amitié artistique

June 2–October 29, 2017
Musée d’Art moderne, Paris
www.mam.paris.fr

The exhibition, with nearly two hundred works, traces the artistic friendship of these three major artists, who met in 1933 and whose lives and works would intersect over the ensuing decades. Beyond their personal affinities, the three artists played with rules of representation, style, and technique.

Balthus, The Street, 1933, Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Brice Marden, Untitled, 1988–91 © Brice Marden/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

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The Beginning of Everything
Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections

February 24–June 18, 2017
The Menil Collection, Houston
www.menil.org

In anticipation of the October 2017 opening of the Menil Drawing Institute, the museum is exhibiting a selection of drawings spanning the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The show highlights promised gifts from the collections of Janie C. Lee and Louisa Stude Sarofim, as well as works from David Whitney’s 2005 bequest, which include those by Balthus, Georg Baselitz, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread.

Brice Marden, Untitled, 1988–91 © Brice Marden/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

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