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Balthus : cats and girls / Sabine Rewald

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TextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art , 2013Description: 166 p. : illus. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780300197013

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DDC classification:

759.4 BAL

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Summary: Balthuss lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas. Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible stand-ins for the artist himself.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.4 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007197

Catalog of the exhibition "Balthus: Cats and Girls - Paintings and Provocations" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 25, 2013-January 12, 2014.

Director's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Note to the reader -- Cats and girls -- Catalogue -- Chronology -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Photography credits.

Balthuss lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas. Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible stand-ins for the artist himself.

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