Balthus has been viciously attacked for producing facist paintings which exploit children in the most invasive way, yet he has also come to be recognised as an extremely important artist who has had an enormous influence on modern painters. This is his biography.
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Nicholas Fox Weber is a graduate of Yale and Columbia Universities. He is the author of several books (including The Art of Babar) and the Director of the Albers Foundation. He writes frequently for the New Yorker.
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Anbieter: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australien
Illus (illustrator). 24.0 x 16.0cms 644pp b/w & Colour Illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This is the first full-scale biography of Balthus the elusive and enigmatic painter of ''markedly sexualized portraits. especially of young girls''. Artikel-Nr. 20532598
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illus (illustrator). Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Pages in unread condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Balthus is one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time and his brilliantly rendered, erotic portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most provocative images of the century. This is the first full-scale biography of this remarkable and influential painter. Born in Paris in 1908 to Polish parents, Balthus scored his initial artistic success at the age of twelve when he published forty of his drawings in a book about a cat that ran away. Rainer Maria Rilke, the lover of Balthus's mother and a huge influence on Balthus, wrote the text. In 1934, Balthus's first exhibition in Paris stunned the art world because of the blatantly sexual content of the work. One of the paintings, The Guitar Lesson, had to be kept in a private back room because of its powerful sado-masochistic imagery. It was already clear that Balthus possessed an extraordinary painting technique: a rare mix of tradition and imagination reminiscent of Piero della Francesca and Courbet. Balthus's work has. Artikel-Nr. Batch-FM617-VG-12909
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Zustand: Très bon état. Illus (illustrator). fort vol. in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette de l'éditeur, VIII-644 pp., quelques planches en couleurs et illustrations en noir. Très bon état général. Artikel-Nr. 68438
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Illus (illustrator). Groß-8°. 24 x 16 cm. VIII, 644 Seiten. Original-Leinenband mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Schnitt fleckig, ansonsten sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition. English language edition. With many illustrations. Original cloth binding with dust jacket. Edges spotted, otherwise fine copy. Artikel-Nr. 62104BB
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