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Blowing Balthus's cover
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BALTHUS: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber (Weidenfeld, 30)
PERHAPS the most frequently quoted anecdote about the painter Balthus
is his instruction to John Russell in 1968, who was writing the
catalogue to the Tate's retrospective of the artist: "The best way to
begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And
now let us have a look at the paintings'."
This famous tease has provoked as much curiosity as it has
quelled.
Known to most people, if at all, as that painter with the Lolita
thing about little girls, the often blatant eroticism of his
paintings, together with ...
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