The painter Balthus, whose cultivated taste for secrecy has enveloped him in an aura of unapproachable mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life. In it, he speaks for the first time about his life as an eccentric European aristocrat, and his theories on how art intersects with history, literature, and spirituality. Photos.
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The painter Balthus, whose cultivated taste for secrecy has enveloped him in an aura of unapproachable mystery, wrote this memoir at the end of his long life. In it, he speaks for the first time about his life as an eccentric European aristocrat, and his theories on how art intersects with history, literature, and spirituality. Photos.
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