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Balthus
Polish-born French painter. He was famed for his enigmatic paintings of interiors featuring languid, pubescent girls, both clothed and nude, for example Nude with Cat (c. 1954). The studied, intense realism with which his self-absorbed figures are depicted lends his pictures a dreamlike quality.
Encouraged to paint by his parents – both artists – and friends such as Bonnard and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Balthus studied in Italy, in Florence and Arezzo, painting landscapes and absorbing the work of the Italian masters, particularly Piero della Francesca.
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