Nearly 150 drawings, watercolour and paintings by the French-Polish artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus, are being auctioned in Paris in December with a €1.2m to €1.7m ...
The French painter Balthus—best known for his portraits of young girls oozing with sexual innuendo—is an artist that elicits radical responses: some love him for his long-lasting talent and staunch ...
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He may have been born at the dawn of the last century, but Balthasar Klossowski knew a secret of our time: put a cat in everything. On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 12, ...
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola died in 2001 at age 92. This exhibition doesn’t make the case that the painter, known as Balthus, was a major artist, or any other untenable claim. Instead, “Cats and ...
Like everyone else who has ever commented on his art, Balthus (1908-2001) returns repeatedly in his memoir to the question of his work's erotic content. A self-taught painter who considered Piero ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. Now let us look at the pictures." This was the formula proposed by this reclusive artist ...
NEW YORK — “I used to want to shock, but now it bores me,” wrote the painter Balthus in 1955. He was referring to the work presented in his first gallery show in 1934, in Paris — a highly charged ...
The great modern artists are mystics. They forge a personal relationship with the main currents of artistic tradition. They transform generally agreed-upon ideas into private ideas, subjecting the ...
When London’s Tate gallery was preparing a retrospective of Balthus’ works in 1968, organizers wanted to write a tribute to the artist and asked for his input. “Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has decided not to take down a Balthus painting of a young girl, Thérèse Dreaming (1938), that an online petition calls “sexually suggestive”. The work ...