MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Balthus," 19 December 1956-3 February 1957, no. cat. 16, pp. 77-8, 23, ill.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, New York (organizer). "Paintings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation Collection: A View of the Protean Century," no. 7, pp. 6, 16, ill. TOUR: M. KNOEDLER, New York, 31 October-24 November 1962; CURRIER GALLERY OF ART, Manchester, New Hampshire, 16 December-12 January 1963; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh, 30 January-26 February; EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, Indiana, 16 March-12 April; MUNSONWILLIAMS-PROCTOR INSTITUTE, Utica, New York, 30 April-27 May; J.B. SPEED ART MUSEUM, Louisville, Kentucky, 13 June-10 July; MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 30 July-25 August; SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 11 September-8 October; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-23 November; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 11 December-7January 1964; DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 26 January-23 February; OKLAHOMA ART CENTER, Oklahoma City, 12 March-8 April; BROOKS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, Memphis, 25 April-23 May; ATLANTA ART ASSOCIATION, Georgia, 10 June-7 July; SAGINAW ART MUSEUM, Michigan, 25 July-22 August; MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 8 September-6 October; ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, Pennsylvania, 24 October-21 November; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 9 December-10 January 1965; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, 8 February-5 April.
MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS, Paris. "Balthus," 12 May-27 June 1966, no. 13, cat. p. 25, ill. Tour: CASINO COMMUNAL, Knokkele Zoute, Belgium, July-September 1966.
ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN, Tate Gallery, London. "Balthus," 4 October-10 November 1968, no. 23, cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 704, cat. ill.
DES MOINES ART CENTER, Iowa. "Art in Western Europe--The Post War Years 1945-55," 19 September-29 October 1978, no. 5 cat. ill.
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, Venice. "Balthus," 1980, ills. p. 11-13.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Paris-Paris: Creations en France, 1937-1957," 28 May-2 November 1981, no. 62, p. 243, ill.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, "Balthus," 5 November 1983-23 January 1984, no. 30, p. 164, ill. Tour: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, New York, 21 February-13 May 1984, no. 28, ill.
MUSEE DE LA VILLE DE KYOTO, Japan. "Balthus," 17 June-22 July 1984, no. 10, pp. 25, 29, 52, 53, ills.
STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Netherlands. "Paintings after 1945," December 1984-April 1985.
MUSEE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS, Lausanne, Switzerland. "Balthus," 29 May-29 August 1993.
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Rouen, France, "A Travers le Miroir de Bonnard a Buren," 20 October 2000-22 January 2001.
PALAZZO GRASSI, Venice. "Balthus," 9 September 2001-6 January 2002
PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, New York. "Pierre Matisse and His Artists," 14 February-19 May 2002, no. 28, p. 80, color ill. p. 81.
MUSEUM LUDWIG, Cologne. "Balthus," 18 August-4 November 2007.
FONDATION PIERRE GIANADDA MARTIGNY, Switzerland. "Balthus: 100 Years," 13 June-19 November 2008.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. “Balthus: Cats and Girls,” 7 October 2013-20 January 2014.
TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM. “A Retrospective: Balthus and Japan,” 19 April-22 June 2014, no. 28, color ill. front cover, pp. 76-77. Tour: KYOTO MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ART, 5 July-7 September 2014.
FOUNDATION BEYELER, Riehen/Basel. "Balthus," 2 September 2018-January 2019, color ill. Tour: MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid, 19 February-26 May 2019.
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HOPE, CHRISTOPHER. My Chocolate Redeemer (London: William Heinemann, 1989), cover ill. (Reprint 1990, London: Minerva).
PERNIOLA, MARIO. "Between Clothing and Nudity," in Fragments for a History of the Human Body part two, Michel Feher, ed. (New York: Urzone, 1989), p. 262, ill.
BOURDAIS, GILDAS. Les Modernes et les autres (Lausanne: Livre Total, 1990), p. 247.
PAULSON, RONALD. Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990), ill.
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PLAZY, GILLES. "Les Paradis Perdus de Balthus," Beaux Arts 145 (May 1996), p. 52.
ZILCZER, JUDITH K. "Balthus," in Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996), p. 74, ill.
MILLER, JONATHAN. On Reflection (London: National Gallery Publication, 1998), no. 3, ill. p. 151.
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CLAIR, JEAN and VIRGINIA MONNIER. Balthus: Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Complet (Paris: Gallimard, 1999) no. 155, color pl. p. 146.
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MURKEN, CHRISTA, et al. Kinder des 20. Jahrhunderts (Cologne: Wienand, 2000), ill. p. 26.
ANDERSEN, M. J. "Balthus in Wonderland," The Providence Journal (2 March 2001), p. B7, ill.
COTTER, SUZANNE et al. (eds.) Jutta Koether: Tour de Madame (Cologne: Walther König, 2018), color ill. p. 212.
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Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
