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• n  (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus

• Balthazar
• Balthasar

News & Articles

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• Balthus Bio, Reissued for Met Retrospective, Documents Artist’s Disdain for Show’s Curator
  Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber is the only major biography currently in print of the artist, born Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, who has a major survey opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this week. First published by Knopf in 1999, the book is being reissued by Dalkey Archive Press on Sept. 25, the same day the exhibition opens, in part, according to John O’Brien, Dalkey’s ...
  Sept. 24, 2013 - The New York Observer
• Saltz on the Painting the Metropolitan Museum of Art Won’t Show You
  Henry Darger’s little girls, Gustave Courbet’s genital close-up, even Picasso’s explicit depiction of fellatio: You might think we had passed the point where a major painting by a first-tier artist is still taboo. Nonetheless, The Guitar Lesson, from 1934, by (the bogusly named) Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known ... More »        
  Sept. 23, 2013 - Vulture