Volume 47, Number 8 · May 11, 2000
'The King of the Cats'
By John Russell
Balthus
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf, 644 pp., $40.00
Balthus: Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works
by Virginie Monnier, by Jean Clair
Gallimard/Abrams, 576 pp., $225.00
Not very long ago, no English-language publisher would have wanted to consider a comprehensive survey of the life and work of a French painter known simply as Balthus. Balthus was widely regarded as an up-market near-pornographer who painted teenage young women in provocative attitudes and states that bordered on indecency.
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