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Balthus: Works, Interviews

Balthus Poligrafa Poligrafa
Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most mysterious and erotically daring, painters of the twentieth century, Balthus, or Balthazar Klossowski, the French/Polish Count de Rola, died in his adopted Switzerland in 2001 at...
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Balthasar Klossowski de Rola Balthus, 1908-2001: The King of Cats (Taschen Basic Art)

Gilles Neret Taschen Taschen
FRENCH-GERMAN PAINTER COUNT BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA (1908-2001), KNOWN AS BALTHUS, SHOCKED THE PARISIAN ART WORLD IN 1934 WITH HIS DREAMY, SENSUAL, NEO-CLASSICAL PORTRAITS OF NYMPHETS AT A TIME WHEN SURREALISM AND ABSTRACTION WERE DE RIGUEUR....
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Modern Art Despite Modernism

Robert Storr, Glenn Lowry, Balthus, Giorgio De Chirico, Ben Shahn, Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, Francesco Clemente, Salvador Dali, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, George Grosz, Glenn D. Lowry The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of mainstream modernism in the arts has been shadowed and complicated by alternative expressions, intended either to set back the clock or to redirect the stream of progress. Modern Art Despite Modernism...
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Balthus: Time Suspended

Sabine Rewald Schirmer/Mosel Schirmer/Mosel
Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic personalities among the painters of the 20th century. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, he grew up in Berlin, Switzerland and Paris, and later moved back and forth between France, the Far...
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Vanished Splendors: A Memoir

Balthus Ecco Ecco
The painter Balthus, whose tenacity and cultivated taste for secrecy have enveloped him in an aura of forbidding mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life.A man who for decades opted to "give expression to the world" rather than to...
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The Painter's House / Das Haus Des Malers: Balthus At The Grand Chalet / Balthus Im Grand Chalet

Gero Von Boehm Schirmer/Mosel Schirmer/Mosel
The paintings of Balthus, one of the most enigmatic and poetic figures in 20th century art, long remained a mystery - just like Balthus himself who persistently fended off all intrusions into his private life. In the late 70s, the aging...
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Balthus: In His Own Words

Cristina Carrillo De Albornoz Assouline Assouline
An insightful and candid portrait of the artist Balthus. Presented in the form of ABC questions, Balthus: In His Own Words reveals his personal universe. "B" for beauty, "H" for Homer, "M" for Mozart, "S" for SOS, Balthus takes us through his...
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Balthus

Sabine Rewald Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
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