<A number of Balthus drawings have sold for over $100,000 in recent years.
Record for a Balthus drawing.
According to Artprice.com, the top price record for a Drawing
?Watercolour by Balthus was for ?Etude pour le Peintre et son Modèle?
which sold for $302,692. The work was sold on 21st October 2003.
http://www.artistsearch.com/artists/BALTHUS__B__KLOSSOWSKI.htm
Etude pour le Peintre ? 1977, 69.9 x 100 cm, Euro 260,000.
http://www.artcult.com/nf064.html
Paris October 2003, Balthus drawing realised Euro 294,250
http://www.christies.com/paris/paris_francais/specialists.asp
Hauts de Hurlevent, 1934, 29 x 26 cm, December 2001, 1,010,000FF
(approximately $183,000).
http://www.artcult.com/nf488.html
Cathy and I, 1932, 26 x 24 cm sold for $221,530 on October 27th 2000.
?I begged her to get away from the window? 33 x 25 cm, sold for $133,300.
http://www.artcult.com/gouaches.htm
Reverie, 100 x 68 cm, 1969, was sold in New York in 1989 for $319,000.
http://www.gazette-drouot.com/gazette/archive-encheres/dessins.html
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The estimate for the work at Sotherby?s is in line with the high
prices achieved above. This is a large work at 100 x 70 cm and few of
this size have come up for auction over the last twenty years. I
counted 7 on the artprice.com site. The prices achieved by two works
of a comparable size and made at around the same period (Etude pour le
Peintre and Reverie) have each exceeded $300,000. However there have
been a number of Balthus works with high estimates that have failed to
sell (see below).
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=N07991&live_lot_id=391
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Other drawings.
Paysage de Monte Calvello, 1978, 70 x 99.5 cm, crayon, sold for $7,000
http://www.lookonline.com/2003_04_01_archive.html
2 works estimates of FF8,000 and FF9,000 respectively.
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:SmV1tbAesVoJ:catalogues.gazette-drouot.com/infoslot.asp%3FCATALOGUE%3D908+%22la+sieste%22+balthus&hl=en
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Database of auction results.
Artprice.com has a comprehensive collection of auction records for
Balthus. There is a charge to view their records which cost from $1.00
per auction record viewed. The minimum number of units that can be
purchased is 20 units costing $20. It is also possible to have
unlimited access to their records by purchasing an annual
subscription.
http://web.artprice.com/artistdetails.aspx?L=en&idarti=NDA4NjY2NTc0ODQ1NDk=
They have details of 208 drawing/watercolour works by Balthus sold at
auction, the most recent records are for March 2004. There are also 77
records of paintings and 122 records of prints/posters.
http://web.artprice.com/ps/psdetails.aspx?idArtist=NDA4NjY2NTc0ODQ1NDk
Balthus ? price levels & indexes.
http://web.artprice.com/index/index.aspx?idArtist=MzI3MzM4NzE0MzM2NTk=
Units rate card.
http://web.artprice.com/client/unitselect.aspx
Annual subscriptions cost $99.
http://web.artprice.com/client/subscriptionselect.aspx
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In recent years, a number of Balthus works have failed to reach their estimate.
According to artnet a work for sale on November 13, Le Lever,
estimated at $4 million to $5 million, was passed at $3,500,000.
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/robinson/robinson11-14-97.asp
According to City review, Odalisque a la mandoline, estimated at $2-3
million was passed at $1million.
http://www.thecityreview.com/f02simp1.html
According to the International Herald Tribune, a 1951 portrait of an
adolescent girl in the nude almost failed to sell. It reached £2.02
million.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:ePugpmzHRPAJ:www.iht.com/articles/128470.html+balthus+%22sold+for%22&hl=en
Arts Journal asks - Is the market for Balthus sagging? A painting with
an estimate of $300,000 - $500,000 sold for only $231,000 at
Christie?s in May 2003.
http://www.artsjournal.com/man/archives20030501.shtml
According to Artnet, a Balthus painting, Lot 30, Bouquet de fleurs,
1941, 73 x 92,1cm, Oil on Board, Estimate $280,00 ? $350,000 was
bought in.
http://www.artnet.com/Auction/HotauctionsResults.asp?AUID=25841&Page=2
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According to an article by Laura Toretta, 2001 prices for Balthus
works on paper were between $15,000 and $30,000.
http://www.gospark.com/read/ArticleHead.asp?ArtID=119&Sez=01
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Other works sold at auction.
Kultur, a German site, lists the top ten paintings and the prices
achieved at auction for Balthus?s works between 1989 and 2000.
http://www.welt.de/daten/2001/12/22/1222km303841.htx
According to Sotheby?s, on 3 February 2004, a new auction record was
established for Balthus when his 1951, painting ?Nu aux bras levés
sold for £2,021,600.
http://www.shareholder.com/bid/news/20040203-128072.cfm
City review has a description of Nu aux bras levés sold for $3,085,750.
http://www.thecityreview.com/s00imps1.html
According to artcult, The lounge, oil on canvas, 1940-42, 65 x 81 cm,
sold for $535,000
http://www.artcult.com/rp_b.htm
According to The City Review, a scene in the Luxembourg Gardens in
Paris by Balthus sold for $178,500 in November 1999.
http://www.thecityreview.com/f99simp2.html
A signed lithograph was offered for sale on Ebay for Euro 1,800
http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3642671748&category=360
Artnet gives an overview of the auction record for Balthus. After
setting a record of $2,090,000 at Christies in 1989, subsequent works
sold for $783,000, $550,000, $517,000. $500,000 and $482,000.
According to this piece erotic pictures sell for higher prices whilst
mainstream pictures sell for between $200,000 and $300,000.
http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/news/waltzer/waltzer4-29-96.asp>
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