Balthus - Lot with 6 books - 2001-2013

You're bidding on a lot with six books by/on Balthus.

Balthus was a French painter known for his dreamlike depictions of eroticized pubescent girls. One of his best-known paintings La Leçon de guitar (The Guitar Lesson) (1934), portrays a woman and young girl in the midst of a music lesson, with the woman’s breast exposed and the young girl’s skirt above her waist. “I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings,” he once said. Today, Balthus’s work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, among others.

Balthus and Cats
Flammarion, 2013
Hardcover, 96 pages, English
24.7x19.6cm
New in seal

Balthus
Taschen, 2005
Hardcover, 96 pages, French
23.5x19cm
Very good condition

Balthus
Le Monde, 2005
Softcover, 96 pages, French
23x18.7cm
Very good condition

Balthus
Giunti Editore, 2001
Softcover, 50 pages, Italian
24x17cm
Very good condition

Balthus in Paris
Die erste Ausstellung 1934
Schirmer/Mosel, 2007
Softcover, 125 pages, German
20.1x12.4cm
Very good condition

Balthus - Cats and Girls
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2013
Hardcover, 176 pages, English
Size: 26x24cm
New in seal