BALTHUS "Man Eating a Cigarette" Signed Original Limited Edition - $6K APR w/CoA

BALTHUS "MAN EATING A CIGARETTE" SIGNED ORIGINAL LIMITED EDITION - $6K APPRAISAL VALUE!   ITEM DESCRIPTION: This lithograph entitled, “Man Eating a Cigarette” depicts a well-dressed man pacing, while having a whole pack of cigarettes in his mouth. It was made in 1959 in limited edition of 200 graphic prints (the current edition is 184th). The character is depicted in an absurd, comic-sketching style with strategically positioned blue and yellow tones. This sarcastically executed framed print is presented as a lithograph and pochoir in colors on arches paper. The width of the piece is 14 inches and the height is approximately 17 inches. The piece is also numbered in pencil at the right bottom of the picture. Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908 – 2001), best known as Balthus, was a reclusive French painter who, in the midst of 20th-century avant-gardism, explored the traditional categories of European painting: the landscape, the still life, the subject painting, and the portrait. He