4 Balthus
12/15/24 • 40 min
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) 1908–2001
Books:
Ni cholas Fox Weber, Balthus: A Biography (1999)
Sabine Rewald, Balthus: Cats and Girls (2013)
Art:
The Guitar Lesson (1934, Private Collection)
Thérèse Dreaming (1938, The Met)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489977
The Street (1933, MoMA)
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80582?artist\_id=317&page=1&sov\_referrer=artist
Exhibitions:
The Street: Curated by Peter Doig (November 1–December 18, 2024, Gagoisan, New York)
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2024/the-street-curated-by-peter-doig/
The Balthus Collection at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
https://www.mcba.ch/en/the-balthus-collection/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) 1908–2001
Books:
Ni cholas Fox Weber, Balthus: A Biography (1999)
Sabine Rewald, Balthus: Cats and Girls (2013)
Art:
The Guitar Lesson (1934, Private Collection)
Thérèse Dreaming (1938, The Met)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489977
The Street (1933, MoMA)
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80582?artist\_id=317&page=1&sov\_referrer=artist
Exhibitions:
The Street: Curated by Peter Doig (November 1–December 18, 2024, Gagoisan, New York)
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2024/the-street-curated-by-peter-doig/
The Balthus Collection at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
https://www.mcba.ch/en/the-balthus-collection/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Previous Episode
3 Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Books:
Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (1980)
Interesting biography that tells you a lot about his friends and the time he lived.
Hiroko Ikegami, The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art (2010)
Great research on Rauschenberg's time in Paris, Venice, Stockholm and Tokyo.
Documentary about Rauschenberg and the 1964 Venice Biennale:
Taking Venice (2023) directed by Amei Wallach
Art:
Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno (1959-1960)
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/series/36719
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Next Episode
5 Monet & Whistler Thames scenes
Claude Monet (1840, Paris - 1926, Giverny)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834, Massachusetts, USA – 1903, London)
Exhibition:
Monet and London. Views of the Thames (The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2025)
https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-monet-and-london-views-of-the-thames/
Art:
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (1872–1877, Detroit Institute of Arts)
Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge (1872–5, Tate Britain)
Nocturne in Blue and Silver (1871-1872, Fogg Art Museum)
Texts:
Whistler, "Ten o'clock”. a lecture (first delivered in 1885)
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125009323144/page/n13/mode/2up
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/102-metres-the-podcast-453431/4-balthus-80308754"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to 4 balthus on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy