Balthus
Britishnoun
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“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 ● Nov. 18, 2022
As the story goes, for many years Balthus was gifted a different Missoni cardigan by a dear friend each Christmas.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
His art collection—photos by Atget, drawings by Balthus, lithographs by Bonnard, and much else—went to the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut, where it was exhibited earlier this year.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Balthus is one of the most important painters of the 20th century, and this action is simply grotesque.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2018
Read on this subject the learned reply of Father Balthus to the treatises of MM.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry
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