Balthus : the last studies
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Balthus : the last studies
Steidl, 2013
Limited ed
- 1 : clothbound
- 2 : clothbound
Available at 6 libraries
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Kwansei Gakuin University Library上ケ原
1 : clothbound779:874:10005731039,
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Kyoto Seika University Library and Information Center図
1 : clothbound748||B 16||100200088,
2 : clothbound748||B 16||200200089 OPAC
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International Research Center for Japanese Studies Library
1 : clothboundYP||16||Ba 100521878,
2 : clothboundYP||16||Ba 200521879
Note
Limited ed. of 1500 and 100 artist's proofs
Issued in slipcase
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Balthus The Last Studies is an undisclosed corpus of nearly two thousand photographs produced during the last ten years of the painter's life. They are the preliminary studies for his last three major paintings. His hands incapacitated by old age, Balthus resorted to the camera as a sort of prosthesis, at once eye, hand and pencil, thus reassuming the mysterious ritual of sketching, for him the one and only way to approach and define the mental image from which the paintings composition would proceed. As a substitute for drawing, these never before seen photographs fully participate in the slow, painstaking practice which had been Balthus' for nearly a century. As such, they give a major insight into the painter's endless quest of beauty.
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