Creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. In this title, the author elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental and historical and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner.
Balthus is one of the most elusive of living painters. This book offers an insight into the mind and work of the artist, bringing together a wide selection of his most important pictures from the 1930s to the present. Photographs include Balthus at work as a young artist in his studio.
Fotonegative, Ill. aus Zeitschriften und Büchern etc., gesammelt von Oskar R. Schlag.