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Artist | Balthus, Les Enfants Blanchard, 1937 Öl auf Leinwand, 125 x 130 cm Musée national Picasso-Paris, Schenkung der Erben Picassos, 1973/1978 © Balthus |
EXHIBITION | 2. September 2018 – 1. Januar 2019 |
“Painting is a language of its own. It is the one I use, and it cannot be translated,” said Balthus, whose full name was Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001), and who was one of the last Great Masters of twentieth-century art and among the most controversial modern artists.
With this focus, the exhibition brings together around fifty important pictures from every phase of Balthus' oeuvre, looking also at the strategies employed in the...