Balthus

Portrait of Painter Balthus and His Niece Frederique Tison at the Chateau De Chassy, Loomis Dean. American (1917 - 2005)


We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.
—      Rainer Maria Rilke