Author: REWALD, Sabine
Title: Balthus. Time Suspended. Paintings and drawings 1932-1960
Description: Schirmer/Mosel, 2008. With texts by Sabine Rewald and Virginie Monnier. 168 pages, 76 colour plates und 96 illustrations. Size: 26 x 31.5 cm, hardcover. English edition. new copy ¶ Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic figures among 20th-century painters. A sensuous and poetical admixture of fairytale, Eros, and dreams, his art was figurative in an age of abstraction, executed in the techniques of Italian Quattrocento fresco. Published on the occasion of his February 2008 centenary, this volume is devoted to his early masterpieces.

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