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        <h1>Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski (or Kłossowski) de Rola) (1908 – 2001)</h1>
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/1.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, Guitar Lesson"></p>
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          <p><strong>Guitar Lesson<br>
            Oil on canvas 63.5 x 54.5 in</strong></p>
         
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/2.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, The Golden Days" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>The Golden Days<br>
            1944 Oil on Canvas<br>
            Hirshhorn Museum</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Balthus was a Polish-French artist, who created controversy in the modern art world. In his lifetime, Balthus refused to send biographical information to museums, claiming his audience should focus on his work and not his personal life.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/3.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, The Room" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>The Room<br>
            1947 Oil on canvas<br>
            Hirshhorn Museum</strong></p>
         
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/4.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, Pierrot" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>Moroccan Horseman and his Horse<br>
            1949 Oil on Canvas<br>
            Hirshhorn Museum</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">As a young artist, Balthus was sponsored by Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Rainer Maria Rilke and Maurice Denis. Some of his earliest work includes a series of illustrations for the book Mitsou, featuring a boy and cat. The image of a cat later became a repeated theme in Balthus’s work.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/5.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, Woman with Violin"></p>
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          <p><strong>Woman with Violin<br>
            1936 Oil on Burlap 81 x 65.4 cm</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1926 Balthus travelled to Italy, where he studied the work of Piero della Francesca and copied his frescoes in Florence. This study later informed paintings Balthus created for a Protestant church in Beatenberg, Switzerland.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/6.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, The Mountain" width="auto"></p>
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          <p><strong>The Mountain<br>
            1936 Oil on Canvas<br>
            Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York</strong></p>
         
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/7.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, Nude Before a Mirror"></p>
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          <p><strong>Nude Before a Mirror<br>
            1955 Oil on Canvas<br>
            Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1930 Balthus was drafted into the Moroccan infantry in Kenitra and Fes, where he worked as a secretary. After two years in Morocco, Balthus moved to Paris and opened a painting studio. Balthus started painting his controversial paintings of young nudes in exotic situations.</p>
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          <p><strong>Study for the Street<br>
            1929 Ink on Paper<br>
            Museum of Modern Art, New York</strong></p>
         
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/9.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, The Street"></p>
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          <p><strong>The Street<br>
            1933 Oil on Canvas<br>
            Museum of Modern Art, New York</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1937 Balthus married Antoinette de Watteville, a model and aristocrat from Bern. The couple remained in Paris and had two children together. Outside of his family, Balthus associated with well-known artists and writers such as, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, Joan MirÃ³, Albert Camus, Pierre Jean Jouve and Joseph Breitbach. His work was highly regarded Picasso, who spoke positively about Balthus’s daring paintings.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/10.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, The Three Judges"></p>
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          <p><strong>André Derain<br>
            1936 Oil on Wood<br>
            Museum of Modern Art, New York</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1940 Balthus and his family escaped the German invasion in Paris, and hid away on a farm in Champroyent. A few years later they moved to Switzerland, living in Bern and Geneva. Balthus remained in Switzerland until 1946, at which time he returned to France. At this time Balthus spent less time in Paris, and frequented locations in southern France such as Aix-en-Provence and the Morvan.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/bathus/11.balthus.jpg" alt="Balthus, Joan MirÃ³ and His Daughter"></p>
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          <p><strong>Joan MirÃ³ and His Daughter<br>
            1937 Oil on Canvas</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">By the 1950s Balthus had an international reputation and a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was in New York that Balthus refused to release personal information, creating an air of mystery around his paintings. Balthus continued to move around Europe during the 1960s and 70s, living in Rome for a while before spending another period of time in Switzerland. On a trip to Japan, Balthus met his second wife, Setsuko, who followed Balthus to Rosiniere, Switzerland. When Balthus died his funeral was attended by a variety of celebrities, ranging from political leaders to popular musicians.</p>
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          <p><strong>The Living Room<br>
            1942 Oil on Canvas<br>
            Museum of Modern Art, New York</strong></p>
         
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The work of Bathus has continued to inspire artists, poets and musicians. He was one of the few, living artists to have a painting in the collection of the Louvre. The work of Balthus is now in major collections around the world. Do you think you own a painting by Balthus? <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/contact/contact1.php">Contact</a> us. We are the Balthus experts.</p>
     
      
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