Paul Bourdin, Paris (gift from the artist). Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 1995, lot 289. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
出版
J. Clair and V. Monnier, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works, Paris, 1999, p. 210, no. D390 (illustrated).
拍品专文
Paul Bourdin, the first owner of this work, was a journalist and close friend of the artist who worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung as a Paris correspondent from 1925 to 1943.