Arts Digest , vol. 31, issue 4-10, p. 7
Pierre-Jean Jouve, "Balthus," La Nef , vol. I, no. 3, September 1944, p. 145
René Char, "Balthus, ou le dard dans la fleur," Cahiers d"art , vols. 20-21, 1945-46, p. 205 illustrated (in its first state)
Robin Ironside, "Balthus," Horizon , April 1948, p. 266, illustrated
James Thrall Soby, "Balthus," The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art , vol. 24, no. 3, 1956-57, p. 7
Edith Hoffman, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions, New York," Burlington Magazine , vol XCIX. no. 99, February 1957, p. 68 (titled The Game of Patience )
Cleve Gray, “The Art In America Show,” Art in America , vol. 49, no. 4, 1962, p. 97, illustrated
Connoisseur , March 1962, p. CXIII
John Russell, “Master of the Nubile Adolescent,” Art in America , no. 55, November-December 1967, pp. 98-103, illustrated
Keith Roberts, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions” Burlington Magazine , vol. CX, no. 788, November 1968, fig. 60, pp. 644-45, illustrated
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 1970, p. 273, illustrated
Jean Leymarie, Balthus , New York, 1979, p. 131
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus: Paintings , London, 1983, no. 31, p. 96, illustrated in color
Jean Clair, “Eros et Cronos, Le rite et le mythe dans l"oeuvre de Balthus,” Revue de l"Art , no. 63, 1984, p. 89
Sanford Schwartz, "The Art World," The New Yorker , 7 May 1984, p. 126
Fundació Joan Miró, A Joan Miró: collecció permanent d"art contemporani en homenatge a Joan Miró , Barcelona, 1986, p. 90 (titled El Soliari )
Exh. Cat., Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Balthus , 1993, p. 47, illustrated
Margherita Andreotti, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, p. 174; p. 175, illustrated in color
Koharu Kisaragi, Shuji Takashina and Kunio Motoe, Balthus , Tokyo, 1994, pl. 21
Claude Roy, Balthus , Paris, 1996, pp. 18 and 20, illustrated in color
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus , London, 1996, pl. 41, illustrated in color
Virginie Monnier and Jean Clair, Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works , New York, 1999, no. P140, p. 142, illustrated
John Russell, Matisse: Father and Son , New York, 1999, p. 140
Nathalie Castagné, trans., Balthus à contre-courant: entretiens avec Costanzo Costantini , Paris, 2001, p. 83
Jean Clair, ed., Balthus , New York, 2001, fig. 8, pp. 69 and 286-87, illustrated in color
Mieke Bal, Balthus: Works and Interview , Barcelona, 2008, pp. 130-31, illustrated in color
Balthus, Vanished Splendors: A Memoir , New York, 2002
Exh. Cat., New York, The Pierport Morgan Library, Pierre Matisse and His Artists , New York, 2002, pp. 80 and 149
Peter Berger, Balthus, portraits privés , Lausanne, 2008, p. 88
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Balthus: Cats and Girls , 2013-14, no. 19, pp. 23-24, 100-01 and 26, illustrated in color (titled The Game of Patience )
Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Balthus , 2018, p. 109