BALTHUS
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Henriette Gomès
Chaumard juillet 1953|21.80 x 27.90 cm|une page sur un feuillet
Signed autograph letter from Balthus addressed to gallerist Henriette Gomès. One page written in black ink on a sheet, envelope attached.
Transverse fold marks inherent to mailing.
"Impossible to remember Baladine's address on Bd St Michel..." Baladine is the nickname of Merline Klossowska, Balthus's mother who was also Rilke's mistress.
"During the summer of 1952, Balthus found a château in the Nièvre, between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers, Henriette Gomès, Pierre Matisse and with them a collective of collectors, including Maurice Rheims, Alix de Rotschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they distributed among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in a continual renovation site. He had for company, to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris, the poet Léna Leclercq, met through Giacometti. The latter remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile, Balthus had begun a romantic relationship with his niece by marriage, Frédérique Tison, daughter of a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife." (Fondation Balthus)
Transverse fold marks inherent to mailing.
"Impossible to remember Baladine's address on Bd St Michel..." Baladine is the nickname of Merline Klossowska, Balthus's mother who was also Rilke's mistress.
"During the summer of 1952, Balthus found a château in the Nièvre, between Autun and Avallon which he decided to rent and where he settled in the spring of the following year. The means were provided by his dealers, Henriette Gomès, Pierre Matisse and with them a collective of collectors, including Maurice Rheims, Alix de Rotschild and Claude Hersent. They paid him a pension in exchange for his latest paintings which they distributed among themselves. The château was severely deteriorated and Balthus lived there modestly in a continual renovation site. He had for company, to help him settle in and ensure a presence when he went to Paris, the poet Léna Leclercq, met through Giacometti. The latter remained until spring 1955. Meanwhile, Balthus had begun a romantic relationship with his niece by marriage, Frédérique Tison, daughter of a previous union of his brother Pierre's wife." (Fondation Balthus)
€800