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Vanished splendors : a memoir / Balthus ; as told to Alain Vircondelet ; introduction by Joyce Carol Oates ; translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry.

Title
Vanished splendors : a memoir / Balthus ; as told to Alain Vircondelet ; introduction by Joyce Carol Oates ; translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry.
Author
Balthus, 1908-2001
Publication
New York : Ecco, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Vircondelet, Alain
  • Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Description
xxvii, 237 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
The late twentieth-century painter describes his childhood with his mother and her lover, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was Balthus's mentor; his sometimes misunderstood works; and his relationship with his beloved wife and daughter.
Uniform Title
Mémoires de Balthus. English
Alternative Title
Mémoires de Balthus.
Subject
  • Balthus, 1908-2001
  • Painters > France > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
ISBN
006621260X
LCCN
^^2002021254
OCLC
49404124
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library