The Street - Framed Prints Animals Collection as announced in the humorously

as announced in the humorously heroic inscription at the bottom of the sheet: Little machine constructed by minimax dadamax in person for fearless pollination of female suckers at the beginning of the change of life and for other such fearless functions

glowing colour

It is up to us to turn our heads and peer into the wilderness around us

Its auction price was estimated to be at £180

The Street - Framed Prints Animals Collection as announced in the humorouslyThe Street, Balthus's first large painting, was one of several that scandalized audiences when it was included in the artist's earliest solo exhibition, in Paris in 1934. Balthus eschewed stylistic categorization, but The Street was of great interest to Surrealist artists for its rendering of a crowded street as an uncanny site of mental isolation and for its exploration of sexual taboos.