Nearly 150 drawings, watercolour and paintings by the French-Polish artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus, are being auctioned in Paris in December with a €1.2m to €1.7m ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. Now let us look at the pictures." This was the formula proposed by this reclusive artist ...
Balthus first attracted notice early in 1934 with a small exhibition at the Galerie Pierre in Paris. Several of the works he showed – The Street, The Window and Alice – seem as startling now as they ...