Balthus: vanished splendors, a memoir
by Balthus, Vircondelet, Alain, Oates, Joyce Carol
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Vanished splendors: a memoir
by Balthus, Vircondelet, Alain, Oates, Joyce Carol, Ivry, Benjamin
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"The painter Balthus, whose tenacity and cultivated taste for secrecy have enveloped him in an aura of forbidding mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life. A man who for decades opted to "give expression to the world" rather than to "express" himself speaks for the…
The late twentieth-century painter describes his childhood with his mother and her lover, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was Balthus's mentor; his sometimes misunderstood works; and his relationship with his beloved wife and daughter.