Signature: Signed and dated (lower left): Balthus 1938

The artist; Pierre Colle, Paris (1938); [Obelisk Gallery, London, until 1958]; Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil, New York (1958–87).

London: Obelisk Gallery, 1958.

New York: AFA Gallery, 1963, cat. no. 7, ill. p. 21.

Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Knokke-le-Zoute: Casino Cummunal, XIX Festival Belge d'Été, ¦Balthus¦, 1966, cat. no. 7.

London: Tate Gallery, ¦Balthus: A Retrospective Exhibition¦, 1968, Exhibition catalogue by John Russell for the Arts Council of Great Britain, cat. no. 11, ill. p. 54.

Detroit: Donald Morris Gallery, ¦Balthus¦, 1969, cat. no. 7, ill.

Marseilles: 1973, cat. no. 6, ill.

Paris: Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, ¦Balthus¦, 1983, pp. 144-145, ill.

Cologne: Museum Ludwig, ¦Bilderstreit: 1960 - Today¦, April 8 - July 2, 1989, cat. no. 30, p. 461, ill. in color.

Mexico: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, ¦El Mundo de Octavio Paz¦, March 15 - July 1, 1990.

Switzerland: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, ¦Balthus¦, May 29 - August 29, 1993, p. 22, illus. in color.

Lausanne: Musée des Beaux-Arts. ¦Balthus¦, May 29-August 29, 1993. Catalogue by Leymarie, Jean, De Salis, Jean Rudolphe, Starobinski, Jean, and Zutter, Jörg. Geneva: Skira, p.22, illus.

Japan: Tokyo Station Gallery, ¦Balthus¦, November 3, 1993 - January 30, 1994. Cat. pg. 44, cat. #5.

Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ¦Balthus¦, January 1996 - March 1996. Exh. cat. unpaginated (illus. in color).

Rome, Italy: Accademia Valentino, ¦Omaggio a Balthus¦, October 24, 1996 - January 31, 1997. Cat. pg. 73, illus. in color.

Germany: Kunsthalle in Emden Stiftung Henri und Eske Nannen, ¦Tanz in der Moderne. Von Matisse bis Schlemmer¦, October 26, 1996 - January 26, 1997. Haus der Kunst Munchen, February 6 - April 27, 1997. Pg. 163, Catalogue Number 149, illus. in color.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ¦Painters in Paris 1895-1950¦, March 8 - December 31, 2000. Cat. p. 110.

Venice, Italy: Palazzo Grassi spa, ¦Balthus¦, September 9, 2001 - January 6, 2002, no. 58, pp. 262-263, ill. in color.

Kyoto,Japan: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, September 14-November 24, 2002; Tokyo: The Bunkamura Museum of Art, December 7, 2000 - March 9, 2003, Picasso and the School of Paris, Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. plate 65, p. 130, illus. in color.

Madrid, Spain: Museu Thyssen Bronemisza, October 11, 2005-January 8,
2006, Modern Realisms (Mimesis: Realismos Modernos 1918-45. p.136,
no. 49; also illustrated in color back cover.

Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig, August 18-November 4, 2007,
Balthus.

Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, June 5-September 7, 2008,
The 1930s: Utopias and Reality.

Klossowski de Rola, Stanislas. Balthus. New York: Harper & Row, 1983, pl. 14.

Leymarie, Jean. Balthus. Translated by James Emmons. 2nd enl. illus. ed. New York: Skira/Rizzoli, 1982, p. 130, illustr.

Monnier, Virginie and Clair, Jean, eds. Balthus, catalogue raisonné of the complete works. New York: Abrams, 2000, p. 134-135, no. P113, illus.

Rewald, Sabine. Balthus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, pp.90-91, cat. no. 18, illus. in color.

William S. Lieberman. Painters in Paris 1895-1950. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, p. 110.