Vanished Splendors: A Memoir by Alain Vircondelet, Balthus

Vanished Splendors: A Memoir

Alain Vircondelet, Balthus

272 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction art memoir informative reflective medium-paced
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The painter Balthus, whose tenacity and cultivated taste for secrecy have enveloped him in an aura of forbidding mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life. A man who for decades opted to "give expression to the world" rather than to "...

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