Balthus pursued an idiosyncratic figurative painting practice during decades dominated by abstraction. Interiors, landscapes and adolescent figures are rendered with deliberate slowness, archaic perspective and references to Piero della Francesca, Courbet and modern photography.
Painting; drawing
Major Works
- 1933The Street
- 1934The Guitar Lesson
- 1937The Mountain
- 1938Thérèse Dreaming
- 1944–46The Golden Days
- 1947–48The Room
- 1952–54The Passage du Commerce-Saint-André
- 1955Girl at a Window
- 1959–60The Moth
- 1968–76Katja Reading
Interviews & Writing
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