From 19 February to 26 May 2019 at the Museo nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid
Museo nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

September 2nd, 2018 - January 1st, 2019 in the Fondation Beyeler in Basel
Fondation Beyeler

Through a Glass Darkly
Lev Mendes_june 28 2018

RTS PLAY, Interview de Raphael Bouvier_31 août 2018

BILAN, Bob Wilson anime Plateforme10 sur le thème de Balthus_31 août 2018 (french)

Espace 2 "Les Matinales" invites Dominique Radrizzani, curator of the Balthus Retrospective in Japan (French)

Les Echos, Judith Benhamou-Huet_Jan. 16.2015 (french)

Le Journal du Dimanche_Jan. 18.2015 (french)

Le Figaro, Valérie Duponchelle_Jan. 18. 2015 (french)

Le Figaro, Le Figaro, Valérie Duponchelle_01.27.2015 (french)

This limited edition publication of previously unreleased material documenting the preparatory work of the last paintings, encompasses a body of thousands of photographs produced during the last years of the painter’s life.

When he was no longer able to draw due to his advanced age, Balthus resorted to using a Polaroid camera as a sort of prosthesis, at once hand and pencil, thus regaining access to the mysterious ritual of sketching, the only process by which he could approach and meticulously define the mental image from which the painting would proceed. As a substitute to drawing, these photographs fully articulated the painstaking and persistent practice that Balthus followed for nearly a century.

Published by Gerhard Steidl, this publication is issued as a box set containing two books: the first volume present the series of Polaroids with emphasis on the artist's methodical search for composition; the second volume feature enlargements of selected photographs. The first volume also contain a collection of testimonials from Balthus himself, the model, as well as the painter's partner and technical assistant, Countess Setsuko Klossowski de Rola. This limited edition box set feature a unique printing of 1000 copies.

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Katerina Jebb uses a very specific technique of exceptional precision, due to high definition scanning, to get inside the matter. Already solicited by numerus museums (such as Musée Bourdelle or Musée Galliera), the artist photographs and creates an index in a technically objective manner, tools, clothes, surfaces and objects belonging to the painter’s patrimony.