Balthus

by Balthus, Raphaël Bouvier, Olivier Berggruen

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible." -Balthus

One of the last great 20th-century masters, Balthus pursued a path that ran exactly contrary to that of the modernist avant-gardes with which he was contemporary. At once quiet and intriguing, his paintings unite colliding contrasts, combining reality and dream, eroticism and innocence, practicality and mystery, the familiar and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775744452
• ISBN13: 9783775744454
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 12.0" x 9.7"