Surrealism à la Courbet
Nicholas Penny: Balthus, 24 May 2001
Balthus: Catalogue raisonné of the Complete Works
by Jean Clair and Virginie Monnier.
Abrams, 576 pp., £140, January 2000,0 8109 6394 9 Show More
by Jean Clair and Virginie Monnier.
Abrams, 576 pp., £140, January 2000,
“... Catalogue raisonné shows the original and final appearances of both this painting and The Street.Nicholas FoxWeber, who does much to reconstruct the intellectual circles in which Balthus moved at this date, offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of The Window. Balthus here ‘empowered himself to push his mother ... ”