Balthus: A Biography

This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. Balthus's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in this book that derives its immediacy from Nicholas Fox Weber's long and intense conversations with Balthus himself-who never previously consented to discuss his life and work with a biographer-as well as Weber's interviews with the artist's closest associates. This biography was first published by Knopf in 1999 and is now available for the first time from Dalkey Archive Press.

Author: Nicholas Fox Weber
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 04/05/2014
Pages: 644
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 2.00d
ISBN13: 9781564789921
ISBN10: 1564789926
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Art | History | General

About the Author

Nicholas Fox Weber is the Executive Director of the Josef and Anna Albers Foundation and has written extensively about each artist, as well as curating many major exhibitions and retrospectives of their work. Weber is a graduate of Columbia College and Yale University; he is the author of fourteen books including The Bauhaus Group, Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Cooperstown, Patron Saints, The Art of Babar and The Drawings of Josef Albers. Weber is currently at work on a biography of Piet Mondrian.