BALTHUS

This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Ba lthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The artist's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in a book that derives its immediacy f rom the author's long and intense conversations with Balthus himself -- who never previously consented to discuss his life and work with a bio...[Read more]