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Balthus : Cats and Girls by Sabine Rewald; Balthus is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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An insightful new look at Balthuss ongoing fascination with cats and girls, including his controversial paintings of young adolescents 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. Cats and Girls is the first book devoted to this subject, focusing on the early decades of the artists career from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the artists life and work, as well as on interviews with Balthus and the models themselves, Sabine Rewald explores the origins and permutations of Balthuss obsessions with adolescents and felines. She addresses the crucial influence of such key figures as poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mothers lover, who acted as Balthuss surrogate father, but also includes the previously unknown voices of the girl their recollections and com

Who reads Balthus : Cats and Girls?

Author

Sabine Rewald; Balthus

Publisher

The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press (distributor)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588395016

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

4.6 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14