Girl with Cat

1. Pierre Colle, Paris; sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, June 14, 1937; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1963; given to the Art Institute, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Balthus, 1962, no. 4 (ill.), detail on cover.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Chicago Collectors, 1963, no cat. no., n. pag., as Young Girl with a Cat.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Balthus, 1964, no. 5, pl. 5.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Library, The New Gallery, Balthus, 1964, no. 7, pl. 7.
• New York, Public Education Association, Seven Decades, 1895–1965: Crosscurrents in Modern Art (1935–1944), 1966, no. 204 (ill.).
• London, Tate Gallery, Balthus, 1968, no. 7 (ill.).
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Balthus in Chicago, August 1–November 9, 1980, no. 2 (ill.).
• Paris, Centre George Pompidou, Balthus, November 5, 1983–January 23, 1984; p. 135, no. 13 (ill.), p. 346, no. 42 (ill.); traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 21–May 13, 1984, no. 17, pp. 41–42, fig. 66.

• Milton Gendel, “H. M. The King of Cats, a Footnote,” Art News 61 (April 1962), p. 37 (ill.).
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Erotic Art, 1966, hors cat. (ill. on cover).
• Jean Leymarie, Balthus (New York, 1982), p. 130 (ill.).
• Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus (London, 1983) pl. 17 (ill.).
• Gary Indiana, “Balthus in Wonderland,” Art in America 72 (October 1984), p. 184 (ill.)
• Ronald Paulson, Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting (New Brunswick and London, 1990), p. 168 (ill.).
• Linda Nochlin, “Women, Art, and Power,” in Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey, eds., Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (Oxford, 1991), p. 42 (ill.).
• Kisaragi, Takashina, Motoe (1994), pl. 8.
• Roy (1996), p. 36.
• Klossowski (1996), no. 22.
• Ades, Dawn, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and New York: Art Institute of Chicago and Thames and Hudson, 1997), no. 3, pp. 6–8.
• Monnier, Virginie, Balthus: catalogue raissoné de l’oeuvre (Paris, 1999), no. P101, p. 131.

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