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Balthasar Klossowski, also known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of young girls, and the dreamlike quality of his imagery.
Balthus by Damian Pettigrew (1996)
Nude with arms raised, oil on canvas, 1951, by Balthus
Balthus, Guitar Lesson, 1934, oil on canvas
In the 1960s and 70s he lived at, and restored, the Villa de Medici while director of the French Academy in Rome
Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon is an oil painting of the mid-15th century that is considered one of the outstanding works of art of the late Middle Ages. Following its appearance at an exhibition in
Balthus
…only by the painting's eroticism, but also by a suspicion of blasphemy in the composition's similarity to that of a famous French religious work, the Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Other works from the same exhibition included The Street (1933), Cathy Dressing (1933) and Alice (1933). Early on his work was admired by writers and…
Enguerrand Quarton. Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Oil on wood, 163cm x 219cm. Musée du Louvre