Balthus / edited by Raphaël Bouvier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouvier, Raphaël, editor.

Fondation Beyeler, issuing body, host institution.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balthus, 1908-2001--Exhibitions.

Balthus.

Balthus, 1908-2001.

Painting, French.

Local Subjects:

Balthus, 1908-2001.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

171 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel : Fondation Beyeler ; Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2018]

Summary:

This volume, published for a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, gathers around 50 key paintings from all phases of this legendary artist's career. It commences with the monumental masterpiece Passage du Commerce-Saint-André (1952-54), in which Balthus' intensive study of the dimensions of space and time and their relationship to figure and object is especially apparent.

Contents:

Developing a visual idiom : Early works

Provocation and transgression : Balthus's first exhibition at the Galerie Pierre

Representation and intimacy : Balthus's portraits from the 1930s

The years in Champrovent and Fribourg : Works from the first half of the 1940s

Return to Paris : Works from the second half of the 1940s

From the studio in Paris to the Château de Chassy : Works from the 1950s

Frome Rome to Rossinière : Late works

Short texts by Raphaël, Christine Burger, Yves Guignard, Michiko Kono, and Juan Ángel López-Manzanares

"Time mastered : Isn't that perhaps the best definition of art?" : Aspects of time in Balthus's work / Raphaël Bouvier

Between sensuality, dignity, and grace : The female figure in Balthus's work / Michiko Kono

"The throbbing tragedy of a drama of the flesh" : Balthus and Antonin Artraud's theatre of cruelty / Juan Ángel López-Manzanares

Thérèse, time and again : Balthus's paintings of girls / Beate Söntgen

Transgression and purity : Balthus's precarious equilibrium / Olivier Berggruen

A secret passage into eternity : Passage du Cmmerce-Saint-André / Wim Wenders

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola : Biography.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, September 2, 2018-January 1, 2019; and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, February 19-May 26, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170).

Contains:

Balthus, 1908-2001. Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

9783906053516

3906053512

9783906053509

3906053504

9783775744454

3775744452

9783775744447

3775744444

OCLC:

1054103899