2001-03-24 - Switzerland
Balthus dies at 92
Balthasar Klossowski, the painter internationally known as Balthus, died on 18th of February at his chalet in La Rossiničre, Switzerland, near Gstaad. He was 92. "For the last 30 years of his long life, Balthus was among the most widely admired of European painters. He had excelled as a portraitist (notably of his painter colleagues André Derain and Joan Miró), as a painter of French landscapes in a tradition that went back to Nicolas Poussin, and as someone who had given a whole new spin to the notion of Parisian townscape." For more go to New York Times
Source: NYT by MT