Hardcover with dustjacket, 160 pages; in English; very good condition; light rubbing to dj; owner s stamp to first page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Balthus

Publisher

Abrams

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0810931346

ISBN 13

9780810931343

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Profusely Illustrated

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Early Modern Art

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Synopsis

A thorough overview of the work of Balthus, this book, by his oldest son, offers insights that only someone close to the artist could provide. Lush reproductions present the widest selection of Balthus's work ever published. In addition, a unique photo section shows Balthus as a young artist and in his studio, nd in recent images taken by his friend Henri Cartier-Bresson. 115 illustrations, 107 in color.

Reviews

Balthus is almost as famous for his reclusiveness and reluctance to divulge personal information as for his provocative paintings of young women, a fact his eldest son addresses with some pique in his introduction to this superb volume, the most extensive collection of his father's lustrous and enigmatic work yet published. Klossowski de Rola defends Balthus' insistence on privacy, then offers a few tantalizing biographical facts and a set of striking photographs of the artist. Readers are free, then, to study and interpret Balthus' intriguing, unsettling, brilliantly stylized, richly textured, and strongly composed street scenes, portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. His most famous paintings date from the 1930s and 1940s and feature, in his son's words, "languid adolescent" girls, images Klossowski de Rola insists are "untouchable archetypes of purity," but which are clearly erotic works of the highest order. Balthus, nearly 90 and still working, is a profoundly sensual painter, both in his handling of paint and in his subject matter. What's "pure" and magnificent here is the artist's sense of eroticism and immense talent. Donna Seaman

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