# Balthus - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:09:10.936Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 315
- Lots with prices: 157
- First auction date: 2002-06-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $14,000
- Price range: $100 to $19,002,500

## Market Takeaway
Balthus shows deep auction liquidity with 314 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $13,750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($13,750\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $3,400 and $43,750.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 12.2% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 31.4% (49 sales)
- $10,000\+: 56.4% (88 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 10
- Previous 12 months sales: 12
- Recent 12 months median: $5,000
- Previous 12 months median: $2,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 84
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 159 lots
- Sotheby's: 47 lots
- Tajan: 12 lots
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Koller Auctions: 6 lots
- Piasa: 5 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 5 lots
- Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG: 4 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 3 lots
- Monaco Legend Auctions: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-21 | BALTHUS \(1908\-2001\) Jeune fille à sa toillete 21 7/16 x 18 in \(54.5 x 45.7 cm\) \(Painted in 1948\) | Bonhams | N/A
2. 2025-11-26 | Balthus, 1908\-2001, Portfolio. Dessins | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 3,000
3. 2025-11-07 | BALTHUS \(EIGTL. KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA, BALTHASAR\): "Portrait de Micheline". | Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG | N/A
4. 2025-10-24 | Balthus \(Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, dit, 1908\-2001\). Nu. | Christie's | €35,560
5. 2025-09-11 | Balthus \(Balthazar Klossowski de Rola\): Portrait de Dora Maar | Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen AG | CHF 6,000
6. 2025-06-24 | BALTHUS \(1908\-2001\) | Tajan | €665
7. 2025-06-18 | BALTHUS \(BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA, 1909\-2001\). YOUNG GIRL KNEELING | Zwiggelaar Auctions | €500
8. 2025-05-27 | Balthus \(Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, dit, 1908\-2001\). Étude pour Le Peint | Christie's | €15,120
9. 2025-05-12 | BALTHUS \(1908\-2001\) Jeune fille en vert et rouge \(Le Chandelier\) oil on can | Christie's | $3,377,500
10. 2025-04-30 | Balthus \(French, 1908\-2001\) Mais C'était un de Leurs Grands Amusements de se Sauver dans la Lande \(Study for Wuthering Heights, a double\-sided work\), 1933 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $5,000
11. 2025-04-03 | BALTHUS \(BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA\) \(1908\-2001\) Étude pour 'Femme couchée' \(Executed in 1948\) | Bonhams | £20,000
12. 2025-03-19 | Balthus \(1908\-2001\) Colette lisant, 1954 | Piasa | N/A
13. 2024-12-05 | Balthus \(Balthasar Klossowski De Rola\) \(1908 Paris \- Rossinière 2001\) – Étude pour „La Toilette“ \(Étude pour "La Toilette"\) | Karl & Faber | €60,000
14. 2024-11-20 | Balthus \(1908\-2001\) Portrait of Setsuko, c. 1990 | Millon & Associes | €300
15. 2024-10-28 | Balthus \(French, 1908\-2001\) Jeunes Garçons Jouant au Cerceau, 1924\-1925 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $2,500
16. 2024-09-24 | BALTHUS \(1908 \- 2001\) \- JUNE FILLE, 1994 | Capitolium Art | €650
17. 2024-06-20 | Balthus \(Balthasar Klossowski\) \(1908\-2001\) Untitled, 1926 | Piasa | N/A
18. 2024-06-05 | Balthus \(Balthus O. Baltasar Klossowski de Rola\), Scène érotique \- Étude de personnage, | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
19. 2024-06-05 | Balthus \(Balthus O. Baltasar Klossowski de Rola\), Ignudo \(after Michelangelo\), Circa 1937 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
20. 2024-06-05 | Balthus \(Balthus O. Baltasar Klossowski de Rola\), L'Élèvement des Filles de Leucippe \(copy after Rubens\), Crica 1937 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
21. 2024-05-19 | BALTHUS \- Nature morte aux fruits | TGP Auction | N/A
22. 2024-05-16 | Balthus \(Parigi 1908\-Rossinière 2001\) \- Nude, 1971 | Finarte | N/A
23. 2024-04-18 | BALTHUS \(1908\-2001\) Portrait de Frédérique \(Executed in 1954\) | Bonhams | £14,000
24. 2023-10-19 | BALTHUS \(BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA\) \(1908\-2001\) Étude pour 'Femme couchée' \(Executed in 1948\) | Bonhams | N/A

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