Bouvier Raphaël Editor (5 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Soft Cover in oversized wraps. Some light wear, overall a clean and crisp copy. "Museum Edition" in English.

Softcover. Illustrated card covers. 171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits. This volume, published for a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, gathers around 50 key paintings from all phases of this legendary artist's career. It commences with the monumental masterpiece Passage du Commerce-Saint-André (1952-54), in which Balthus' intensive study of the dimensions of space and time and their relationship to figure and object is especially apparent. Contents: Developing a visual idiom : Early works -- Provocation and transgression : Balthus's first exhibition at the Galerie Pierre -- Representation and intimacy : Balthus's portraits from the 1930s -- The years in Champrovent and Fribourg : Works from the first half of the 1940s -- Return to Paris : Works from the second half of the 1940s -- From the studio in Paris to the Château de Chassy : Works from the 1950s -- Frome Rome to Rossinière : Late works -- Short texts by Raphaël, Christine Burger, Yves Guignard, Michiko Kono, and Juan Ángel López-Manzanares -- "Time mastered : Isn't that perhaps the best definition of art?" : Aspects of time in Balthus's work / Raphaël Bouvier -- Between sensuality, dignity, and grace : The female figure in Balthus's work / Michiko Kono -- "The throbbing tragedy of a drama of the flesh" : Balthus and Antonin Artraud's theatre of cruelty / Juan Ángel López-Manzanares -- Thérèse, time and again : Balthus's paintings of girls / Beate Söntgen -- Transgression and purity : Balthus's precarious equilibrium / Olivier Berggruen -- A secret passage into eternity : Passage du Cmmerce-Saint-André / Wim Wenders -- Balthasar Klossowski de Rola : Biography. VG, covers show some wear along bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 220 pages. 12.25x10.25x12.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 220 pages. 12.25x10.25x12.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Brand New. 220 pages. German language. 12.20x10.35x0.79 inches. In Stock.