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Balthus
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Fan account of Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola, a french painter of polish and prussian origins.
1908-2001
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Drawing room https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/drawing-room-1942
Drawing room
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Portrait of Baroness Alain de Rothschild https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/portrait-of-baroness-alain-de-rothschild-1958
Portrait of Baroness Alain de Rothschild
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The Golden Years https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-golden-years
The Golden Years
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Nude in Profile https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/nude-in-profile
Nude in Profile
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Drawing Room https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/drawing-room
Drawing Room
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A Young Girl http://www.moma.org/collection/works/33043
The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The cardgame https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-cardgame-1973
The cardgame
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Joan Miro and his daughter Dolores https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/joan-miro-and-his-daughter-dolores-1937
Joan Miro and his daughter Dolores
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The First Communicants https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-first-communicants-1926
The First Communicants
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Larchant https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/larchant-1939
Larchant
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Girl at the window https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/girl-at-the-window-1955
Girl at the window
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Painter and his Model https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/painter-and-his-model-1981
Painter and his Model
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Solitaire https://www.artic.edu/artworks/20509/
Balthus was born into an educated and artistic, but impoverished, family of Polish aristocrats who had fled political and economic turmoil to settle in Paris. As a young man, he traveled to Italy to study such Old Masters as Piero della Francesca. Aside from this direct experience, Balthus received little formal schooling; this permitted him to develop his own unique artistic vision. In 1933 he began painting the erotically charged images for which he is best known—enigmatic scenes of young girls lost in reverie that often place the viewer in the position of voyeur. Balthus spent most of World War II in Switzerland, where in 1943 he painted Solitaire. The striking posture of the girl, deep in thought as she considers the cards on the table, is one the artist used in a number of earlier works. The insistent verticals of the patterned wallpaper create a counterpoint to the diagonal of the girl’s back; the mysterious expression of her shadowed face contrasts with the strong, raking light that defines her delicate, long fingers. These details suggest how carefully Balthus orchestrated the painting’s unsettling emotional tenor. Joseph Winterbotham Collection
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Japanese Girl with by the Red Table https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/japanese-girl-with-by-the-red-table-1967
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The Dream https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-dream
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Sleeping Girl https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/sleeping-girl-1943
Sleeping Girl
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Girl kneeling, her arms on a chair https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/girl-kneeling-her-arms-on-a-chair
Girl kneeling, her arms on a chair
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The Moth https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-moth-1960
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The white skirt https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-white-skirt-1937
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Self-portrait https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/self-portrait-1940
Self-portrait
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Lady Abdy https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/lady-abdy-1935
Lady Abdy
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The passage of Commerce Saint-Andre https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/the-passage-of-commerce-saint-andre-1954
The passage of Commerce Saint-Andre
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The Living Room https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1627/
Although his first exhibition was in a Surrealist gallery and he had many friends among the Surrealists, Balthus never adopted the methods of Surrealism. He has no interest in visual puns, automatism, abstraction, or other facets of the Surrealist program. What he does share with Surrealism is an interest in eroticism as a central fact of psychic life. His constant theme is the self-absorbed, dawning sexuality of the virginal adolescent.
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Still life https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/still-life-1937
Still life
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Still Life (quince and pear) https://www.wikiart.org/en/balthus/still-life-quince-and-pear-1956
Still Life (quince and pear)
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM