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	Balthus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balthus' older brother, Pierre Klossowski, was a philosopher and writer influenced by theology and the works of Marquis de Sade.
		Balthus returned to France in 1946 and a year later he made a trip with André Masson to Southern France, meeting figures such as Picasso and Jacques Lacan, who eventually became a collector of Balthus' work.
		Balthus was the only living artist who had his artwork in the Louvre's collection (it came from Picasso's private collection when it was donated to that museum).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balthus (1299 words)

	Balthus presents Balthus by Jed Perl
		Balthus was born in Paris, and his painting, from beginning to end, is quintessentially French in the way that realist, romantic, and classical tendencies are commingled so that each somehow modifies the others.
		Balthus is eighty-five—a fact that he is no doubt well aware of, in spite of his having been born on February 29, leap day, and therefore having only a few years ago invited friends to a twentieth-birthday celebration.
		Balthus has sometimes been criticized and even occasionally ridiculed for calling himself Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola; opinions differ as to whether his father’s Polish family was actually entitled to the title, but in any event it does seem a bit absurd for an artist of his stature to care one way or the other.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/12/oct93/perl.htm (3352 words)

	Balthus Cosmopolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Balthus' mother was the painter Elizabeth Dorothea, called Baladine, maiden name Spiro, a Polish woman of the Jewish faith whose father was a cantor.
		In 1948, Balthus drafted the stage set and the costumes for Albert Camus' L'Etat de Siège, in 1949 for Boris Kochno's Le peintre et son modèle and in 1950 for Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at the festival of Aix-en-Provence.
		Balthus, who had staged his life, partly constructed his vita and surrounded himself with an aura of mystery, leaves art lovers and historians with a lot of riddles to solve.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo14/balthus.htm (1906 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Reclusive French artist Balthus dies
		Balthus, whose full name was Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, died on Sunday after leaving a medical clinic to return to his chalet in Switzerland.
		Balthus inspired and influenced the art world for more than six decades but remained a mystery to all but a handful of intimate friends.
		Balthus was born to a family of artists in Paris on February 29, 1908 - a date which allowed him to joke on his 92nd birthday that he was in fact only 23.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1178275.stm (360 words)

	Balthus
		Balthus insisted on candor and honesty, and he would be the one to have the first and last word.
		Balthus was having stomach problems and could not see me in the morning when I arrived according to plan; Setsuko said that she or he would call me that afternoon to say if I might come later on.
		Balthus said he was just recuperating from the journey, and then was planning on ringing me. In any event, I should come over at 3 p.m.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/w/weber-balthus.html (3291 words)

	BALTHUS
		Balthus never came to the United States, and for most of his life he lived either in Paris or in a succession of increasingly grand and often remote country houses in France, Switzerland and Italy.
		It was in the hallowed studios in the gardens of the Villa Medici that Balthus worked with a new medium (casein tempera on canvas) to produce the series of endlessly worked and reworked figure paintings that won him a whole new reputation.
		Balthus married Antoinette de Watteville in Bern in 1937.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /020401.html (2650 words)

	CNN.com - 'Real painter' Balthus dies, aged 92 - February 18, 2001
		Tributes to Balthus, who inspired and influenced the art world for more than six decades during which he completed some 300 canvases, were led by President Jacques Chirac.
		Balthus' first published work was at the age of 12 -- a collection of 40 sketches about his lost cat, called Mitsou.
		A longtime heavy smoker, Balthus was dogged by frailty in his final years and was cared for by his second wife, the Japanese artist Setsuko Setsuko -- 35 years his junior.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/france/02/18/balthus (534 words)

	BALTHUS
		Balthus is known not only as a painter of pubescent girls but also as one of the century's great figurative masters, a realist never won over by Cubism, Surrealism or any other modern movement.
		Balthus was an inventive boy, loved by his mother and adored by his mother's lover, Rainer Maria Rilke.
		Balthus strenuously condemned this view of his art, and he does so again in the book: "I always reject stupid interpretations that my young girls are the product of an erotic imagination.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /balthus.html (6118 words)

	Valerie Lamontagne - Balthus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Becoming Balthus is a project that attempts to create a bridge between the fields of painting and performance.
		Conceived as both a performance and digital photo series Becoming Balthus is based on extensive research into the work of the painter Balthus (Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola) and the representation of women and adolescents in his paintings.
		Becoming Balthus is grounded in an awareness of the problematic representation of the female body as exacerbated in Balthus’ work and beyond.
	www.mobilegaze.com /valerie/valerie_balthus_info.html (487 words)

	Balthus Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1943, Balthus exhibited his paintings in Geneva and lived in the Villa Diodati, once the home of Lord Byron.
		During a trip to Switzerland in 1977, Balthus stopped for some tea at the Grand Chalet de Rossinière, a hotel in the Pays d'Enhaut in the Vaud Alps.
		Balthus retired to his secluded nest in the Pays d'Enhaut, finally obtaining the sought-after anonymity and escaping from interviews with journalists.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/celebrities/bios/218.html (496 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Balthus
		With the death of his mentor and financier Balthus returned to Paris, where he was welcomed by the late poet's circle of associates from the areas of art, literature and theater.
		Balthus served less than a year's enlistment before he was discharged because of illness, relocating with his wife to Fribourg and eventually the Villa Diodate near Geneva, a former home of Lord Byron.
		After literally generations of refusal to have his photograph taken, Balthus permitted himself to be photographed at his 92nd birthday gala in 2000, claiming that, as a Leap Year birth, he was only 23.
	obits.com /balthus.html (976 words)

	Balthus The Painter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As he approaches his 89th birthday on February 29, Balthus is filmed informally at his home in Rossiniere in Switzerland, surrounded by friends and family including his Japanese wife Setsuko and his daughter.
		Michelina has happy memories of the experience, recalling that Balthus would be completely absorbed in his work, and that she enjoyed seeing him "take off" into his own world.
		Balthus fell in love with the Swiss landscape, in which he ultimately made his home.
	www.rosetta.co.uk /balthus.htm (472 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Balthus: Vanished Splendors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The painter Balthus, whose tenacity and cultivated taste for secrecy have enveloped him in an aura of forbidding mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life.
		Balthus was born Balthasar Klossowski in 1908 to Polish art historian Erich Klossowski and his wife, the painter Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro.
		Also, in a kind of final lesson, Balthus shares his thoughts about painting and creation, denounces contemporary art as being illusory and deceitful, and talks candidly about his Catholic faith and how it inspired his work.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/books/release/art/balthusvanished.html (407 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Jun. 24, 2002 -- Balthus Unveiled - 1
		At first glance, Balthus' versions seem to be exact replicas, but it soon becomes clear that he was more interested in the composition of figures than in detail or color.
		The woman in the Balthus drawing has the same wistful, melancholic look as characters in David's work, but her contours are softer and the effect more ethereal.
		Swiss sculptor and painter Giacometti was Balthus' friend and adviser, and the two shared similiar artistic visions borne out of disenchantment with the purely imaginary aspects of surrealism.
	time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020624-262919,00.html (929 words)

	Balthus
		Even if he was at that time associated with Artaud (he did the sets for his Cenci) and with Giacometti, Balthus refused to call on an imaginary world in any way.
		But the rigorous composition and slow execution remained unchanged (Balthus would happily spend years on a single canvas, and go on to produce variants).
		Balthus: Catalog Raisonne of the Complete Works, by Virginie Monnier.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/B/balthus.html (587 words)

	Balthus
		Born Balthasar Klossowski in 1908, Balthus was a prominent figure in modern painting despite working in a self-consciously pre-modern style.
		As Kimmelman notes, "Like many Europeans, Balthus found ridiculous the American assumption that art is a moral occupation." Alas, Kimmelman makes some annoyingly illogical comparisons with the recent Brooklyn Museum flaps, a prime example of the journalistic fallacy of treating two events as intimately interconnected just because they happened around the same time.
		"Balthus is not only a figurative painter, he proves himself as a narrative, erotic, mysterious, suggestive, and master of the human form.
	www.dazereader.com /balthus.htm (711 words)

	Alibris: Balthus
		The painter Balthus, whose cultivated taste for secrecy has enveloped him in an aura of unapproachable mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life.
		With the death of Balthus in February 2001, the world lost one of the great painters of the 20th century.
		Balthus is the master of the erotic image.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Balthus (321 words)

	IHRSA - Jul 2004 CBI Balthus
		Balthus is the brainchild of Jorge Leria, the majority stockholder in the club, and his fellow investors; the product of a group of talented firms, including architectural, marketing, and communications companies from Chile and Spain; and the ongoing work-in-progress of some 120 employees (e.g., receptionists, instructors, maintenance personnel, gardeners).
		Balthus' neighbors include an airport, Casa Piedra (an events center), Borde Rio (a group of exclusive restaurants), Club de Polo (a polo club), and Club de Bridge de Santiago (a bridge club).
		Balthus is now planning to expand its health area, enlarge its group-cycling room, and create a dedicated Pilates studio.
	cms.ihrsa.org /IHRSA/viewPage.cfm?pageId=1733 (1071 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 99028422
		The story was told to me a lifetime later by the eighty-two-year-old Balthus -- the Count de Rola -- in the sitting room of his vast eighteenth-century chalet in a small French-speaking village in the Alps.
		In 1977, at the time of a rare Balthus show in New York -- the first in a decade -- Robert Hughes wrote of the artist in Time magazine that "at 69 he has no public face" and that there were no anecdotes about him in circulation, thanks to his own careful control.
		In fact, for most of the thirteen years Balthus had been in Rossinière, the local population simply thought Balthus was a retired businessman who painted as a hobby -- until the recent appearance of an article in Paris Match.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random043/99028422.html (3396 words)

	Balthus
		Balthus is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the modern era.
		Balthus soon developed a distinctive style, producing poetic, calm, yet erotically charged and oddly disorienting paintings.
		Balthus - Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) painter Born: 2/29/1908 Birthplace: Paris, France French painter...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0805960.html (150 words)

	Balthus artist and art...the-artists.org
		Balthazar Klossowski (Polish-French), known as Balthus, is largely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important painters-- as well as the most scandalous.
		On 20 September 2003, the Balthus Foundation inaugurated its cultural space at RossiniÃ¨re with a first exhibition titled "Balthus' youth".
		The aim of the Foundation â“ whose articles of association were signed by Balthus himself and his wife, Countess Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, in late 1998 â“ is to insure the continuing legacy of the artist, his work, personality and influence.
	the-artists.org /ArtistView.cfm?id=89E86D68-D850-11D4-A93A00D0B7069B40 (149 words)

	BALTHUS IN HIS OWN WORDS - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE
		Presents Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better-known simply as Balthus, in a candid self-portrait, in the form of a series of answers to questions (the questions are not printed, in a very unusual twist to the interview format, like the unheard but comprehensible questions from the person on the other side of a telephone conversation).
		It is also very apt because Balthus was one of the most reclusive artists who enjoyed an enormous international "cult" stature, his paintings commanding millions of dollars.
		Balthus accepted painting on commission from very wealthy collectors but he took his time.
	www.modernrare.com /books/5476 (314 words)

	Bold Type: Nicholas Fox Weber
		His study of the life and work of the artist Balthus, self-determinedly known as Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, was a particularly daunting endeavor.
		Balthus's story has long been shrouded in mystery, misinformation and apocrypha and can be found only by distinguishing between the lines of reality and the shading of fiction that Balthus has blended as finely as the distinctive and otherworldly pigments to be found in his paintings.
		In doing so, he has conducted exhaustive research on the key figures in Balthus's life as he interviewed family members, close friends, the women who sat for Balthus as children and prior biographers who were less resistant to the allure of the count.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1099/foxweber (353 words)

	balthus
		Presented in the form of ABC questions, Balthus: In His Own Words reveals his personal universe.
		Balthus (1908—2001) learned how to paint at the Louvre museum and in Italy.
		Balthus sometimes spent years on one painting, obsessively observing and re-creating on canvas.
	www.assoulineusa.com /balthus.html (138 words)

	Junk for Code: Stephen D Ross Interview#2
		Balthus thinks of this in terms of archetypes of purity.
		An example of the outlawed and the shocking is a Balthus painting that is rarely shown in public, and would not be shown in an Australian newspaper today:
		It's violence and menace is a long way from the domesticated cheesecake of Unablogger.
	www.sauer-thompson.com /junkforcode/archives/000850.html (622 words)

	Balthus Online
		Balthus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Balthus copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
		All images and text on this Balthus page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/balthus.html (342 words)

	The Common Review: The Solitaire of Coincidences: Balthus and ... by Ilya Kutik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One was of a girl—again, about the age of Lolita—sitting on a couch and holding a small mirror.
		The rug under the model’s feet was the sole direct quotation from Balthus.
		And, besides that, we were in California, where it’s hot, and not in Switzerland, where Balthus lives and lights his fireplace.
	talk.greatbooks.org /tcr/balthus11 (1029 words)

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