NEW YORK — “I used to want to shock, but now it bores me,” wrote the painter Balthus in 1955. He was referring to the work presented in his first gallery show in 1934, in Paris — a highly charged ...

Inside the Metropolitan’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor galleries is the perviest art exhibition to be found anywhere in New York: “Balthus: Cats and Girls—Paintings and Provocations.” The canvases on ...

Surrounded as we are by blatant and pervasive sex, looking back at the work of Balthus can give us respite — and a more nuanced, playful vision of eroticism. All the great modernist painters of the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. Now let us look at the pictures." This was the formula proposed by this reclusive artist ...

Nearly 150 drawings, watercolour and paintings by the French-Polish artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus, are being auctioned in Paris in December with a €1.2m to €1.7m ...

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When artists talk about Balthus, whose paintings are now the subject of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1] they frequently seem to enter into a kind of imaginary dialogue with him.