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Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world.
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Jun 28, 2024 · Balthus (born February 29, 1908, Paris, France—died February 18, 2001, La Rossinière, Switzerland) was a French painter who, in the midst of 20th-century avant-gardism, explored the traditional categories of European painting: the landscape, the still life, the subject painting, and the portrait.
Balthus was a French painter known for his dreamlike depictions of eroticized pubescent girls. View Balthus’s 1,619 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola) was born in 1908 in Paris, and died in 2001 in Rossinière, Switzerland. His first major museum exhibition was at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1956.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.
Sep 25, 2013 · Balthus: Cats and Girls—Paintings and Provocations explores the origins and permutations of the French artist’s focus on felines and the dark side of childhood. Balthus’s lifelong fascination with adolescence resulted in his most iconic works: girls on the threshold of puberty, hovering between innocence and knowledge.
Balthus (born Balthasar Klossowski, 1908-2001) is regarded as the “last maestro of the 20th century,” equal to Picasso. His landscapes dominated by calmness and his indoor scenes of young girls “symbolizing an unparalleled perfect beauty” reveal the artist’s mysterious and tense world.
Balthus (French, 1908–2001), born Balthazar Klossowski, the Count de Rola, was a Modern painter best known for his controversial depictions of adolescent girls. As a child growing up in Paris, Balthus was constantly surrounded by art.
Balthus developed a figurative style that defies any label. His personal pictorial language of robust forms and heavily defined outlines combines the procedures of the Old Masters with certain aspects of Surrealism.
