BALTHUS: CATS AND GIRLS
by Rewald, Sabine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine / Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300197012
- ISBN 13
- 9780300197013
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Quarto, 10.4 in. x 9.3 in., pp. ix, 166. Richly illustrated with color and black and white photographs of Balthus' art and life. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar. Balthus (born Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) (1908 - 2001) was a reclusive Polish-French painter of charged and disquieting narrative scenes. Skirting avant-garde movements such as Surrealism, he appropriated the techniques of such antecedents as Piero della Francesca and Gustave Courbet to depict the physical and psychic struggles of adolescence. Casting viewers as voyeurs of brooding pubescent female subjects, he scandalized audiences with his first gallery exhibition, at Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1934. In the sixty years that followed, Balthus cultivated a self-taught classicismâevident in the subject matter and technique of his interior portraits, street scenes, and landscapesâthat ultimately served as a framework for more enigmatic and subversive artistic investigations. (from Gagosian).
Synopsis
"The original German edition of this book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Balthus--Aufgehobene Zeit, Gemälde und Zeichnungen 1932-1960', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, August 18-November 4, 2007"--T.p. verso Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163).
Reviews
On Mar 26 2015, a reader said:
amazing, candid; beautifully texted and illustrated interreralationship of girls and cats.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87548
- Title
- BALTHUS: CATS AND GIRLS
- Author
- Rewald, Sabine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine / Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300197012
- ISBN 13
- 9780300197013
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- classicism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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