Balthus

French · 1908–2001

Figurative Painting Surrealism

Also known as:

Balthasar Balthasar Klossowski de Rola Balthasar Klossowsky

Balthus—Balthasar Klossowski de Rola—painted adolescent girls in domestic interiors with a deliberately unsettling timelessness, combining Renaissance compositional gravity with charged psychological tension. Controversial and internationally prized, his major paintings command above $10 million at auction. His deliberately mythologized biography and refusal of photography added to his legend.

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