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Klossowski Balthus

Art is to refuse mediocrity.

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Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, was born in Paris in 1908 in an artist family. He began drawing and painting very young, encouraged by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother’s friend after she parted with his father. Balthus was born artist, and he said he learnt drawing as well as anyone who learns how to speak. With his first works, he was deliberately far from the . . .

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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past. These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier

The works presented on this page are not available anymore.
Original exhibition poster de Balthus : Balthus - Drawings
Balthus - Drawings
1968-1969 Poster for the exhibition of the artist, Balthus - Dessins, at the Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris. Without
Original lithograph de Balthus : Mangeur de cigarettes
Mangeur de...
1959 Original lithograph and stencil in watercolor, signed in stone. Guilde de la Gravure Publisher. Drystamp of the editor. Without
Lithograph after signed de Balthus : Without title VII
Without title VII
1994 Lithograph after Balthus, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the album published by the Navarra Gallery, Paris. Without
Original signed lithograph de Balthus : Les Hauts de Hurlevent V
Les Hauts de...
1989 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the book "Les Hauts de Hurlevent". Librairie Séguier Ed., Paris. Without
Original signed lithograph de Balthus : Les Hauts de Hurlevent IV
Les Hauts de...
1989 Original lithograph, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the book "Les Hauts de Hurlevent". Librairie Séguier Ed., Paris. Without
Lithograph after signed de Balthus : The nap
The nap
1994 Lithograph of interprétation after Balthus, signed in pencil, extracted from the album published by Galerie Navarra. Without
Lithograph after signed de Balthus : Without title VI
Without title VI
1994 Lithograph after Balthus, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the album published by the Navarra Gallery, Paris. Without
Signed lithograph de Balthus : Without title V
Without title V
1994 Lithograph after Balthus, signed in pencil by the artist, extracted from the album published by the Navarra Gallery, Paris. Without
Lithograph signed de Balthus : Without title IV
Without title IV
1994 Lithograph signed in pencil from the album published by Galerie Navarra. Without
Original etching de Balthus : Portrait of Antonin Artaud
Portrait of Antonin...
Circa 1990 Original etching, with the monogram in pencil. Without
Lithograph signed de Balthus : Deadened girl
Deadened girl
1994 Lithograph after Balthus, signed in pencil, from the album published by Galerie Navarra. Without
Lithograph signed de Balthus : Girl of back
Girl of back
Date inconnue Lithograph after Balthus, signed in pencil, extracted from the album published by the Navarra gallery. Without
Lithograph signed de Balthus : Untitled III
Untitled III
1994 Lithograph signed in pencil from the album published by Galerie Navarra without
Lithograph signed de Balthus : Untitled II
Untitled II
1994 Lithograph signed in pencil from the album published by Galerie Navarra without
Lithograph signed de Balthus : Untitled I
Untitled I
1994 Lithograph after Balthus, signed in pencil, extracted from the album published by Galerie Navarra. without

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
*« Balthus », C. Roy et J. Leymarie, Ed. Séguier, Paris, 1991 *« L’oeuvre complet », J. Clair, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1999 All the "catalogues raisonnés"

Bibliographic track & more

To read about the artist :
  • « Balthus », J. Leymarie, Skira, Genève, 1990
  • « Balthus », Claude Roy, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1996
  • « Balthus , un atelier dans le Morvan », cat. d'expo., Musée de Dijon, 1999
  • « Balthus à contre-courant », C. Costantini, Ed. Noir sur Blanc, Paris, 2001
  • « Balthus, rétrospective », Palazzo Grassi, Venise, 2001
  • « Balthus, biographie », S. Taylor-Wood, Le Seuil, Paris, 2003
  • « Balthus, une biographie », Nicholas Fox Weber, Ed Fayard 2003
  • « Le Paradoxe Balthus », R. Aubert, Ed. de la Différence, 2005
  • « Exposition du Centenaire », J. Clair et D. Radrizzani, Fd Pierre Gianadda, 2008
  • « Portraits privés », P. Berger, R. Martin, F. Rouan et R. Char, Ed. Noir sur Blanc, 2008
To read from the artist :
  • « Correspondance amoureuse avec A. de Watteville », Buchet-Chastel, Pars, 2001
  • « Mémoires », textes rassemblés par A. Vircondelet, Ed. Le Rocher, 2016
Website :
www.fondation-balthus.com/

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Mouvements de l'art

  • + MAGIC REALISM / 1935-1980 / Pierre Roy, Albert Carel Willink, Grant Wood, etc.
All art movements

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