Antonin Artaud
Balthus
8 November 2025
The exhibition is open by appointment only: post@galeriebuchholz.de
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
28 August 2025 -
31 October 2025
The exhibition is open by appointment only: post@galeriebuchholz.de
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Balthus
Study for “The Barracks”, 1931
ink on paper
26.7 x 34.8 cm
Balthus
Study for “The Barracks”, 1931
ink on paper
26.5 x 31 cm
Balthus
Study for “The Barracks”, 1931
ink on paper
26.5 x 32 cm
Balthus
Study for “The Barracks”, 1931
ink on paper
26.5 x 32 cm
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Balthus
Study for “The Spahi and His Horse”, 1949
oil on canvas
73 × 60 cm
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Balthus
Study for “Dormitory in Kénitra”, 1931
pencil and ink on paper
23 x 28.5 cm
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Balthus
Study for “The Street”, 1929-1930
pencil and ink on paper
23 x 28.5 cm
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
“Les Cenci”
In: La Bête Noire 2 (May 1, 1935), p. 1
Illustrated with a portrait of Artaud by Balthus
Balthus
Portrait of Antonin Artaud, 1935/c. 1990
lithograph
35 x 29 cm
Balthus
Self-Portrait, c. 1933-1935
ink and pencil on paper
26.3 x 16 cm
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Balthus
Study for “It was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors and remain there all day”, c. 1932
ink on paper
26 x 19.7 cm
Balthus
Study for “Young Girl at the Window”, 1957
pencil on paper
43.5 x 28.2 cm
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Le théâtre de la cruauté (manifeste)
Paris: La Nouvelle Revue Française, 1932
22 x 13.5 cm, wrappers, 12 pp.
Offprint of the article published in La Nouvelle Revue Française 229 (October 1932)
Antonin Artaud
Le théâtre de la cruauté
[Paris]: [Denoël et Steele], 1933
17 x 11 cm, wrappers, unpaginated
Antonin Artaud
Balthus
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Original typescript, signed (twice), of the script for Les Cenci
[Paris], [c. February 1935]
27 x 21 cm, 36 pp., typewritten, with autograph corrections in a secretarial hand
Signed by Artaud on the first and last pages
Antonin Artaud
Ticket for the opening gala of Les Cenci at the Théâtre des Folies-Wagram, May 7, 1935
letterpress with handwritten corrections
12 x 18 cm
Antonin Artaud
Autograph letter, signed (twice), to André Gide
[Paris], Tuesday, March 23, 1932
21 x 13.3 cm, 22 pp., in ink
“La mise en scène et la métaphysique.”
in: La Nouvelle Revue Française 221 (February 1932), pp. 219-234
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Antonin Artaud
Autograph letter, signed (twice), to André Gide
[Paris], Tuesday, March 23, 1932
21 x 13.3 cm, 22 pp., in ink.
Balthus
Set design study for Act 4, Scene 3 of “Les Cenci”, c. 1935
ink on paper
21 x 27 cm
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Balthus
Set design study for Act 4, Scene 3 of “Les Cenci”, c. 1935
ink on paper
21 x 27 cm
Balthus
Costume design studies for ‘Les Cenci”, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
each 29.8 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Count Francesco Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
29.8 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Count Francesco Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
29.2 x 18.5 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for a male figure, probably Bernardo Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
29.5 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Bernardo Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
30.5 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Giacomo Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
30.5 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Beatrice Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
30.5 x 19 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Beatrice Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
29.8 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Beatrice Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
30.5 x 18.7 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Beatrice Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
29.5 x 19.3 cm
Balthus
Costume design study for Lucretia Cenci, c. 1935
pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper
20 x 16.5 cm
Pierre Klossowski
La cheminée, 1954
pencil on paper
100 x 72 cm
installation view
Christophstraße 18, Köln 2025
Pierre Klossowski
La cheminée, 1954
pencil on paper
100 x 72 cm
Balthus
Tobias and the Angel, 1926
ink on paper
21.7 x 18 cm
