contre temps: entente
– Duane Michals,
Balthus and Setsuko
, 2000
Balthus could manage to get everyone else in trouble while keeping only himself above the fray, and he delighted in doing so.
– Nicholas Fox Weber,
Balthus: A Biography
, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999, p. 5
Balthus’s paintings had made it clear that