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 ...

If current trends continue, in just a few years all of contemporary culture will be nothing but an unending stream of cat pictures. Newspapers desperate to survive will publish only adorable kitten ...

He may have been born at the dawn of the last century, but Balthasar Klossowski knew a secret of our time: put a cat in everything. On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 12, ...

When London’s Tate gallery was preparing a retrospective of Balthus’ works in 1968, organizers wanted to write a tribute to the artist and asked for his input. “Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is ...

When we talk about Balthus what we talk about are perversities: a grown man painting erotically charged portraits of Lolita-like young girls with their skirts flapped up like flowers. We see this ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Balthus: Cats and Girls-Paintings ...

Paris-born Balthus Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001) is considered by some to be comparable to Picasso, though it was Picasso who said that Balthus was the "last great painter of the 20th century." From ...

'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 for the catalogue of his 1968 retrospective at the Tate Gallery ...

Balthus, born Balthasar Klossowski, in 1908, was sixty-two when we met, some forty years ago. I had never known a great artist, and he looked the part, especially in paint-splattered trousers and a ...

Nicholas Fox Weber is the author of "Balthus: A Biography" and "Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943." He is writing a biography of Le Corbusier. The mystique of the ...