Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber is the only major biography currently in print of the artist, born Balthasar Balthus, ‘Girl with a Cat,’ 1937. Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber is ...

Nicholas Fox Weber is the author of "Balthus: A Biography" and "Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943." He is writing a biography of Le Corbusier. The mystique of the ...

In a 1968 retrospective of his work at the Tate Gallery, the Polish-French modern artist Balthus once prepared a biography for his influential paintings that read: “Balthus is a painter of whom ...

You think the Brooklyn Museum had trouble with elephant dung on the Virgin Mary? The European painter Balthus entered the art world as notoriously as did any of last year’s Sensations provocateurs, ...

Developing a visual idiom : Early works -- Provocation and transgression : Balthus's first exhibition at the Galerie Pierre -- Representation and intimacy : Balthus's portraits from the 1930s -- The ...