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Balthus

1908 - 2001

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Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of young girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about, and he resisted attempts to build a biographical profile. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Balthus is the 366th most popular painter (down from 365th in 2019), the 1,150th most popular biography from France (up from 1,162nd in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Painter.

Balthus is most famous for his paintings of young girls.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Balthus ranks 366 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco Melzi, Aleksandra Ekster, Vasily Perov, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Édouard Vuillard, and Asher Brown Durand. After him are Ferdinand Bol, Luigi Russolo, Karel Appel, Christian Krohg, Sesshū Tōyō, and Jean-Marc Nattier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Balthus ranks 53. Before him are Carole Lombard, Arthur Adamov, Mercè Rodoreda, Lita Grey, Rex Harrison, and Chivu Stoica. After him are Stéphane Grappelli, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Günther Prien, John Kenneth Galbraith, Dmitry Ustinov, and Giovanni Leone. Among people deceased in 2001, Balthus ranks 38. Before him are Masao Ono, Robert Ludlum, Carroll O'Connor, Douglas Adams, Mohamed Atta, and Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. After him are Emilie Schindler, Jacques Mayol, John Lee Hooker, Ashok Kumar, W. G. Sebald, and Isaac Stern.

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In France

Among people born in France, Balthus ranks 1,150 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Jacques Hébert (1757), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Jacques Rivette (1928), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), and Paul Landowski (1875). After him are Joachim du Bellay (1522), Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Jean II Le Maingre (1366), and Alain Poher (1909).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Balthus ranks 80. Before him are Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), Horace Vernet (1789), Léon Bonnat (1833), Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), and Édouard Vuillard (1868). After him are Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Armand Guillaumin (1841), Albert Marquet (1875), Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767), and Eva Gonzalès (1849).

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