<b>“From time to time, amidst all the trials and</b> <b>errors, it happens: I recognize what I was looking</b><b>for. All of a sudden the vision that preexisted</b> <b>incarnates itself, more or less intuitively and more</b><b>or less precisely. The dream and the reality are</b> <b>superimposed and made one.” —Balthus<br></b><br>Published to document Gagosian Gallery’s 2015 Balthus exhibition in Paris, this striking new book depicts the beautiful paintings, drawings, and photographs that were part of that career-spanningexhibition, the first of Balthus’s work in Paris since the 1983–84 retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou.<br><br>Vibrant color reproductions of the artist’s interior portraits, street scenes, and landscapes, along with striking installation shots, present the self-taught classicism that Balthus cultivated as a framework for his more enigmatic artistic investigations. A conversation between Olivier Zahm and Setsuko Klossowska de Rola completes the catalogue, providing an insightful look into the world of this reclusive painter of charged and disquieting narrative scenes.