Vanished Splendors: A Memoir by Balthus; Translator-Benjamin Ivry; Introduction-Joyce Carol Oates - 2002-12-01

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NY:: Ecco (HarperCollins),. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 006621260X . As told to Alain Vircondelet. Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

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New York: Ecco Press; HarperCollins, 2002. Pictorial boards, xxvii, 237 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. As told to Alain Vircondelet. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "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 'express' himself speaks for the first and only time about his life, family, work, his theory of art and how it intersects with history, literature, and spirituality. Balthus was born Balthasar Klossowski in 1908 to Polish art historian Erich Klossowski and his wife, the painter Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro. The family lived in Germany, France, and Switzerland. In this memoir Balthus describes his childhood with his mother and her lover -- the poet Rainer Maria Rilke -- who became… Read More