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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Balthus
| Editor | Raphaël Bouvier |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2018 |
| Cover | Paperback with flaps with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-4445-4 |
| Pages | 169 |
| Weight | 1140 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Olivier Berggruen, Raphaël Bouvier, Christine Burger et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel |
| Article ID | art-30990 |
Master of stillness: Balthus, the most enigmatic painter of our time, in a large retrospective.
In his multifaceted, multilayered oeuvre Balthus (1908–2001), one of the last great twentieth-century masters, pursued a path that ran exactly contrary to the modern avant-garde movements. As quiet as they are intriguing, his works feature colliding contrasts, combining reality and dream, eroticism and innocence, practicality and mystery, the familiar and the uncanny in unique ways.
The Fondation Beyeler’s retrospective unites around forty significant paintings from all phases of this legendary artist’s career, reflecting the ambiguous presentation of his imagery. The exhibition and its companion catalogue begin with the monumental, enigmatic masterpiece, Passage du Commerce-Saint-André (1952-54), in which Balthus’s intensive study of the dimensions of space and time and their relationship to figure and object is especially apparent.
