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- #Featuresunday "A couple of days ago I was in Basel to take a closer look at the much-discussed Balthus exhibition. You might know that he painted young girls, very young girls in what one might call sexy poses. Some people feel offended, some don‘t, some want to see his paintings being burnt, some praise him as a genius. To be honest, I find it important that his work is shown in a museum and it‘s even more important that the context is given. What are your thoughts? Should museums ban works that people demand to be taken down?" Thank you @anika for joining our #MeetBeyelerBalthus and sharing your thoughts with us. #BeyelerBalthus #FondationBeyeler #etabetapr_arte #mtpisani_etabetapr #etabetapr @mtpisani_etabetapr (presso Fondation Beyeler) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXT695iqRj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1st7mtkncp8z5

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Balthus photographed by Irving Penn in 1948. “I have no wish to figure among samples of the latest novelties. I simply want to fulfill my own destiny as a painter, and to say what I have to say on the scale that suits me. It may be large, or it may be small. What matters are my inner necessities. All other considerations are completely alien to me.” "Balthus" is on view until January 1, 2019 #BeyelerBalthus #FondationBeyeler #etabetapr_arte #etabetapr #mtpisani_etabetapr @mtpisani_etabetapr (presso Fondation Beyeler) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnstFsshCkU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=197fba44t5pbd

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#ThursdayMotivation We've had a wonderful opening weekend of the exhibition "Balthus" with a lot of interesting guests such as Balthus' wife Setsuko Klossowska de Rola and Balthus' model Anna Wahli. Here you see them standing in front of the artworks "Le chat au miroir III" (1989-1994) and "La Chambre turque" (1965 / 66) – both were portrayed in these paintings by Balthus. The exhibition "Balthus" brings together some fifty important pictures from every phase of Balthus's oeuvre, looking also at the strategies employed in the staging of his often provocative images, and illuminating the elements of irony and mystery in his work. His pictures combine tranquility with extreme tension, and embody a wealth of contradictions, mingling dream and reality, eroticism and innocence, the factual and the unfathomable, the familiar and the uncanny, in a wholly unique way. "Balthus" is on view until January 1, 2019. #BeyelerBalthus #FondationBeyeler #etabetapr_arte #etabetapr #mtpisani_etabetapr @mtpisani_etabetapr (presso Fondation Beyeler) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnY3JxFgwlH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cuanjsel4wzc