Balthus

British  

/ baltys /

noun

1. real name Balthasar Klossowski de Rola . 1908–2001, French painter of Polish descent, noted esp for his paintings of adolescent girls

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Example Sentences

That is the subject of Balthus’s 1933 painting, “The Street,” which has inspired the artist Peter Doig to organize an exhibition by that name at Gagosian, one that is as tantalizing and enigmatic as its modernist centerpiece.

From New York Times

Balthus — the name adopted by Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, a Polish-French artist whose life spanned almost the entire 20th century — considered “The Street” to be his first major painting.

From New York Times

Gendel’s descriptions can be, appropriately, almost photographic: The painter Balthus, he writes, “is like a lizard with a high IQ. Deliberate movements of the head. Quick eye. From the lizard comes slow deliberate speech, which gives even banalities a certain weight or at least measure.”

From Washington Post

“The Paris Diary” covers his stay there and is filled with famous names of people he met — Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc, Balthus, Salvador Dali, Paul Bowles, John Cage, Man Ray, and James Baldwin.

From Seattle Times

“Duncan now stands at his easel beside Balthus, Hopper, Bonnard and Sickert.”

From New York Times