On a blustering but bright afternoon last week, the artist Setsuko met me for tea at the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side. Dressed in a serene pale green kimono, her black hair in an elegant ...

The painting is part of the small “Balthus Remembered” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York through May 27. A girl of maybe eleven sleeps on a bench with one leg drawn up (her skirt and ...

22 x 17.4 cm. (8.7 x 6.9 in.) J. Clair and V. Monnier, Balthus: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet, Gallimard, Paris, 1999, no. CC1473/1 reproduced in black and white p. 422; no. CC1473/2/3/4 ...

In their treatment of personality, contemporary artists usually fall into the extremes of well-meaning portraiture, ill-meaning caricature or deep-meaning fantasy. For a highly unusual glimpse of the ...

"Mieke Bal's analysis is focused in the eerie sense of very real and very unreal that the paintings emanate. She considers this the heart of Balthus's work. Bal argues that the paintings draw the ...

On the walls of his grand salon, Balthazar Klossowski de Rola has hung only one of his own drawings—a portrait of an adolescent girl—and none of his paintings. If a visitor (ushered into the grand ...