Balthus: A Biography

Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita, 2.1, 2.2, 18.1, 18.2, 23.1

Napoleon I, emperor of France

Napoleon III, emperor of France

“Narcisse” (Rilke), 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 19.1

National Gallery, London

Nativity (Piero della Francesca)

Neri, Grazia, photograph by, 23.1

Neue Sachlichkeit painters, 3.1, 16.1

New Criterion, The, 3.1, 19.1

Newhouse, S. I.

New York Herald Tribune

New York Times, The, 3.1, 3.2, 19.1, 23.1

New York Times Magazine, The 8.1, 19.1

Niarchos, Stavros, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 20.1

Nichols, Mike

Nicksen, Graham

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Nin, Anaïs, 11.1, 11.2

Niobides sculptures, 22.1, 22.2

Noailles, Countess Anna de

Noailles, Comte Charles de:

as art patron, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5

social circle of, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

Noailles, Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de, 16.1, 16.2

as art patron, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 19.1, 21.1

Balthus’s portrait of, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 19.1, 19.2

family background of, 3.1, 16.1

personality of

Rorem and

social circle of, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6

Noli me tangere (Piero della Francesca)

Nolke, Gudi, 3.1, 3.2

Nouvelle Revue Française, La, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3

Nouvelles orientales (Oriental Tales) (Yourcenar)

Nude in Front of a Mantel, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 19.1

Nude with Towel, 23.1

Nureyev, Rudolf

Oberon, Merle

Olivier, Sir Laurence

Olympia (Manet)

Onassis, Jacqueline

120 Days of Sodom (Sade), 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 22.1

Opium (perfume)

Oriental art, influence of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1, afw.1

Orinsby-Gore, Jane

Ovid, Metamorphosis, 5.1

Painter and His Model, The, 23.1, 23.2

Palace at 4 a.m., The (Giacometti)

Paris:

architecture in

Balthus’s first move to, 4.1, 5.1

Balthus’s oils of people in; see also Street, The

bohemianism of

Cour de Rohan studio in, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 19.1, 22.1, 22.2

Galerie Beaux-Arts in

Galerie Druet in

Galerie Pierre in, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Louvre in

Minotaure exhibition in

postwar years in, 19.1, 19.2

Rilke in

Rue de Fürstemburg studio in, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1

Paris Match, 1.1, 8.1, 19.1

Passage du Commerce Saint-André, The, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 12.1, 19.1

author’s analysis and interpretation of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 23.1

Balthus’s views on, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1

critical review of

exhibition of, 8.1, 10.1, 23.1, 24.1

self-portrait in, 2.1, 7.1, 23.1

as tableau vivant

Passage of Interlaken (Courbet)

Patron Saints (Weber)

Paz, Octavio, 2.1, 11.1

Persian Gulf War, 2.1, 4.1, 19.1

Picasso, Pablo, 7.1, 9.1, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 22.1

Artist and the Model by

art of, 8.1, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

on Balthus’s work, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1

Bernard Berenson on

The Children owned by, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 21.1

exhibition of work of, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 16.1, 19.1

Picasso, Paloma, 22.1, 22.2

Piero della Francesca, 6.1, 11.1

Adam Announcing His Death

Balthus’s copies of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1

Baptism of St. John, 6.1, 6.2

composition of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

De Prospettiva Pingendi

Flagellation

influence of, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6, 23.7

Judas, 9.1

Legend of the True Cross, 6.1, 6.2

Madonna della misericordia, 23.1, 23.2

Madonna del parto, 6.1, 6.2

Men Carrying the Wood, 9.1

name of

Nativity

Noli me tangere

other artists and, 6.1, 6.2

qualities of work of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1

The Queen of Sheba, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2

restorations of work by

Resurrection of Christ, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

The Victory of Hercules, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2

work in museum collections

writings of

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, see Matisse, Pierre

Pietà (Bordone)

Pitoëff, Georges

Poe, Edgar Allan, 5.1, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 23.1, 23.2

Poiret, Paul

Poland:

Jews in

nobility of, 19.1, 22.1

Polignac, Princess de

Pompidou Centre, see Centre Pompidou, Paris

Poniatowski, Stanisław August (Stanisław II), 3.1, 3.2, 22.1

Portrait of Erich Klossowski (Spiro), 2.1

Portrait of Jane Cooley, 1.1, 1.2

Portrait of Louise Vernet as a Child (Géricault), 5.1, 5.2

Portrait of P. J. Proudhon (Courbet), 22.1, 22.2

Portrait of Setsuko, 22.1

Portrait of the Baroness Alain de Rothschild, 19.1, 19.2

Poussin, Nicolas:

Balthus’s copying at Louvre, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 17.1, 21.1

Concert

Echo et Narcisse, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 17.1, 18.1

influence of, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 17.1, 21.1

other artists copying work of, 5.1, 5.2

Paris retrospective of

Piero and, 6.1, 6.2

Prix de Rome, 22.1, 22.2

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 22.1, 22.2

Proust, Marcel

Quays, The, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 12.1, 23.1

Queen of Sheba, The (Piero della Francesca), 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2

Radziwill, Prince “Stash”

Ray, Man, Antonin Artaud, 11.1

Raynal, Tériade and Maurice

Réalités, 2.1, 19.1

Reinhardt, Joseph, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 23.1

Reinhart, Georg, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

Reinhart, Werner, 2.1, 7.1

Rembrandt van Rijn, 11.1, 21.1, 22.1

Renaissance art, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3; see also Piero della Francesca

Reni, Guido

Renoir, Jean

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2

Resurrection of Christ (Piero della Francesca), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Balthus’s copy after, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 23.1

Reverchon, Blanche

Rewald, John, 7.1, 23.1

Rewald, Sabine

and authentication of Balthus’s work

on Balthus’s work, 2.1, 8.1, 14.1, 22.1

doctoral thesis by, 6.1, 19.1

Metropolitan Museum catalog by, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1, 14.1, 23.1

Rheims, Maurice

Ricci, Cardinal Giovanni, 22.1, 22.2

Richardson, John, 17.1, 19.1

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 2.1, 3.1

on androgyny

and anti-Semitism

and Baladine, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 18.1, 22.1, 23.1

and Balthus, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 14.1, 23.1, 24.1

on Balthus’s talent, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 23.1

on Cézanne

childhood of, 2.1, 3.1

on the “Crac,” 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1, 18.1

daughter of

death and burial of, 7.1, 13.1, 19.1

Duilo Elegies, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 17.1, 19.1

family background of

and father’s death

and Fenêtres, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 21.1

health of, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1

on his own work

influence of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, afw.1

and Klossowski boys, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 23.1

Letters to a Young Poet

and Mitsou contract

Mitsou preface by, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 11.1

and Muzot, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 19.1, 23.1

and “Narcisse,” 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 19.1

Rilke, Rainer Maria (cont.)

in Paris

patrons of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1

and Piero’s work

poetry by, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 17.1, 19.1

solitude sought by, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

Roberte au passage Choiseul (P. Klossowski), 10.1

Rockefeller, Blanchette, 10.1, 10.2

Rodin, Auguste, 2.1, 12.1, 22.1

Rola, Comte de:

use of title, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1

Romanov family, 3.1, 3.2, afw.1, afw.2

Rome, Villa Medici in, see Villa Medici

Room, The, 2.1, 19.1, 19.2; color plate 1

androgynous figure in, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 19.1, 22.1, 23.1

author’s analysis and interpretation of, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 19.1, 23.1

awakening as theme in, 2.1, 10.1

Balthus’s views on, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 23.1

current status of, 2.1, 19.1

exhibition of, 2.1, 10.1, 23.1

Piero’s influence in

Rorem, Ned, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

Rotapfel-Verlag, publishers

Rothschild, Baroness Alain de, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

Roy, Claude, 19.1, 22.1

Ruskin, John

Russell, John, 2.1, 18.1, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1

on Balthus’s personal history, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

on Passage du Commerce Saint-André

on The Street, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1

Tate catalog essay by, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 15.1

Saalburg, Béatrice Colle, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3

Sade, Laure de

Sade, Marquis de, 10.1, 11.1, 16.1

Gray’s writings on

The 120 Days of Sodom, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 22.1

Pierre Klossowski’s writings on, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 19.1, 23.1

on virginity

Saint, Clara

Saint Laurent, Yves, 22.1, 22.2

Salis, Jean Rodolphe von, 2.1, 19.1

Sanchez, Fernando

Sanchez, Maria

Sansepolcro, Italy, frescoes in, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 23.1

Savoya, Marina Doria di

Scalfani, photograph by, 22.1

Scène du jeune ogier et du Commandeur de Saint-Vit (P. Klossowski), 10.1

Schiaparelli, Elsa

Schjeldahl, Peter

Schmidt, Helmut

Schrimpf, Georg, 3.1, 3.2, 16.1

Schulz, Bruno

Segalen, Victor

Self-Portrait, 19.1, 19.2

Self-portrait (Artaud), 11.1

Serenissima (Jong)

Setsuko, 4.1, 22.1, 24.1

artwork by, 6.1, 6.2, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, afw.1

at Asia Society

and Balthus’s fragility

Balthus’s marriage to, 12.1, 19.1, 22.1

and Balthus’s stories, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1

and Balthus’s work, 8.1, 19.1, 22.1, 24.1, afw.1

and birthday party

family background of

and Frédérique, 3.1, 3.2, 19.1, 22.1, 22.2

and Le Grand Chalet

interviews of Balthus and, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1

language and, 2.1, 22.1

meeting of Balthus and

as model, 22.1, 22.2

physical appearance and personality of, 1.1, 22.1, afw.1

on psychoanalysis, 3.1, 13.1

at Villa Medici, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3

writings about

youth of, 2.1, 3.1

Seurat, Georges

La Grande Jatte, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

influence of, 1.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 23.1

Shelley, Mary

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 11.1, 11.2, 19.1

Shiff, Sidney

Signorelli, Luca

Skira (publishing house):

and Balthus (Leymarie), 8.1, 8.2

and Les Marana

and Minotaure

Skira, Albert, 19.1, 22.1

Sleep (Le Sommeil), 22.1, 22.2

Sleep/The Two Friends (Courbet), 22.1, 22.2

Soby, James Thrall, 1.1, 3.1, 14.1, 14.2

on Balthus’s personal history

catalog essays by, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

and Cathy Dressing

on Derain

on Giacometti

and The Guitar Lesson, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1

and Joan Miró, 15.1, 15.2

and MoMA exhibit

and The Street, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 16.1

Sonnets to Orpheus (Rilke)

Sotheby’s, New York, 3.1, 3.2

Spiro, Abraham Beer, 3.1, 3.2, 22.1, 23.1

Spiro, Eugen, 3.1, 7.1

in Berlin, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1, 12.2

family background of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

in Les Milles

Portrait of Erich Klossowski, 2.1

Spiro, Peter, 3.1, 10.1

Spoleto, Festival of the Two Worlds (1982) in

Staël, Nicolas de

Stanisław II of Poland, 3.1, 3.2, 22.1

Stein, Gertrude, 9.1, 14.1, 19.1

Steinlen, Théophile-Alexandre

Stendhal

Stevens, Mark

Stieler, Hilde

Still Life, 14.1, 14.2

Still Life (Morandi), 7.1

Still Life with Broken Glass

Still Life with Fruit (Erich Klossowski), 2.1

Still Life with Old Shoe (Miró), 14.1, 15.1

Stravinsky, Igor

Street, The, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 17.1; color plate 4

author’s analysis and interpretation of, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1

Balthus’s views on, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 16.1

Card Players compared with

Cathy Dressing compared with, 12.1, 12.2

early version of, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1

exhibition of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 16.1, 23.1

The Guitar Lesson compared with, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

Katia Reading compared with

ownership of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1

Piero quoted in, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1

Pierre Klossowski’s article on, 8.1, 8.2

repainting of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 19.1

setting of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, 14.1

shock value of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 12.1

Strohl, Jean and Frieda, 2.1, 6.1, 7.1

Struwwelpeter, 12.1, 13.1

Study after Guitar Lesson, 10.1, 10.2

Study for “The Three Sisters,” 20.1, 20.2

Summer Afternoon (Setsuko), 6.1

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Seurat), 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Supervielle, Jules, 5.1, 11.1

Surrealism, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1, 22.1

“à la Courbet,” 16.1, 17.1

Artaud and, 11.1, 11.2, 19.1

De Chirico and

fantasy vs., 16.1, 16.2

Galerie Pierre and, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 16.1

Giacometti and, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2

Miró and

and religious mockery

Sutton, Denys, 14.1, 14.2

Swedenborgians

Swiss Peasant Costume Cycle (Reinhardt), 7.1, 7.2

Switzerland:

Balthus in World War II in, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

Beatenberg, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1, 23.1

de Wattevilles in

Geneva

Le Grand Chalet in, 1.1, 23.1

Klossowskis in, 2.1, 2.2

landscapes of, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

Lausanne, 3.1, 8.1, 24.1

Muzot in, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

Rossinière, 1.1, 8.1, 23.1, 23.2

Villa Diodati in, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2

Sylvester, David

Taillade, Geneviève, 14.1, 14.2

Tate Gallery, London:

Balthus retrospective (1968) in, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 19.1

catalog of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 15.1

Taxis-Hohenlohe, Marie von Thurn und

Tchelitchew, Pavel

Tenniel, John

Thaw, Eugene Victor, 7.1, 22.1

Theater of Cruelty:

Artaud’s purpose in, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 22.1

Les Cenci and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3

reality and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1

Surrealism and, 11.1, 11.2, 19.1

Théâtre des Folies-Wagram, Paris

Thérèse Dreaming, 18.1, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1; color plate 11

eroticism of

technical achievement of, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1

Thomson, Virgil

Three Sisters, The, 20.1, 20.2; color plate 12

author’s interpretation of

Béatrice’s reminiscences of, 20.1, 20.2

Marie-Pierre’s reminiscences of

ownership of, 10.1, 20.1, 20.2

series of, 6.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 22.1, 22.2

sketches for, 20.1, 20.2

Sylvia’s reminiscences of

Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll)

Time magazine, 1.1, 19.1

Tintin, 22.1, 22.2

Tison, Frédérique:

at Chassy, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 22.1

drawings by

as model and mistress, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1

as Pierre’s stepdaughter, 3.1, 10.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1

at Villa Medici, 3.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2

Tison, Jean Charles

Titian, 11.1, 18.1

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri, 2.1, 10.1

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich

Turkish Room, The, 7.1, 15.1, 17.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 23.1

Two Friends, The/Sleep (Courbet), 22.1, 22.2

Uccello, Paolo, 11.1, 11.2

Uhde, Wilhelm, 8.1, 8.2

United States:

Balthus’s art dealer in, see Matisse, Pierre

Balthus’s fame in, 23.1, 23.2

collectors in, 9.1, 9.2, 17.1

Untitled (child on leash), 2.1, 2.2

Valéry, Paul, 5.1, 6.1

Valli, Anna, afw.1, afw.2, afw.3

van der Weyden, Roger

van Eyck, Jan, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1

van Gogh, Vincent, 1.1, 8.1, 19.1

Velázquez, Diego, 13.1, 18.1, 19.1, 22.1

Forge of Vulcan

influence of

Venice Biennale (1980), 6.1, 23.1

Vernet, Horace, 5.1, 22.1, 22.2

Via Condotti prize

Vicountess de Noailles, The, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

Victim, The, 5.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 23.1

Victime, La (Jouve), 13.1, 13.2

Victorio Emanuelle

Victory of Hercules, The (Piero della Francesca), 6.1, 9.1, 9.2

View of a Farm (Miró), 21.1, 21.2

View of Montecalvello, 15.1, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2, afw.1; color plate 15

author’s impressions of

Balthus’s views on, 23.1, 23.2

Oriental influence on

ownership of, 8.1, 23.1

technical achievement of, 12.1, 19.1, 20.1, 22.1

Vildrac, Charles, 2.1, 2.2

Villa Diodati, Geneva, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2

Villa Medici, Rome, 4.1, 22.1

artistic standards in, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4

Balthus as director of, 1.1, 3.1, 8.1, 12.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 23.1

Balthus’s painting at, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.2

changes introduced in

exhibitions in, 3.1, 3.2, 14.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1

Frédérique at, 3.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2

history of

Ingres as director of, 22.1, 22.2

Japanese trip for

Leymarie as director of, 6.1, 8.1, 22.1, 22.2

Niobides at, 22.1, 22.2

restoration of, 6.1, 8.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4

Setsuko in, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3

social life at

staff of, 22.1, 22.2

studio in, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel

Virgilio (servant), 1.1, 19.1

Vreeland, Diana

Vuillard, Édouard

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1, 14.1, 21.1

Warhol, Andy, 6.1, 9.1, 22.1, 22.2

Watt, Alexander

Watteville, Antoinette de:

Balthus’s divorce from, 12.1, 19.1, 22.1

Balthus’s infatuation with, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 17.1, afw.1

Balthus’s marriage to, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 22.1

Balthus’s portrait of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

in Cathy Dressing, 7.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6

and children, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 22.1

friendship of, 1.1, 2.1, 22.1

separation of Balthus and

in White Skirt, 20.1, 20.2

Watteville, Hubert de, 22.1, 22.2

Watteville, Robert de

Weber, Charlotte Fox, 8.1, 19.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, afw.1

Weber, Katharine, 20.1, 20.2, 23.1, 24.1, afw.1

Weber, Lucy Swift, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, afw.1

Weber, Nicholas Fox, afw.1

Week of Four “Thursdays,” The, 19.1, 19.2

White Skirt, The, 6.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3

Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. John Hay

Wilde, Oscar, 10.1, 10.2, 24.1

Wilder, Billy

Wills, Garry

Wilt, M. de

Window, The, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 23.1; color plate 8

author’s analysis and interpretation of, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 17.1, 21.1

Lady Abdy compared with

ownership of

sexual violence in, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1

Window, Cour de Rohan, The, 19.1, 19.2

Wolff, Kurt

Woman Before the Mirror (Miró)

Woman in a Bathtub, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1

Woman with a Guitar, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3

World War I, Klossowskis’ exile during, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1

World War II

Baladine and, 3.1, 14.1

and Balthus’s exile in Switzerland, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

Balthus’s military service in, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1, 19.1

concentration camps in, 3.1, 19.1, 19.2

Derain and, 14.1, 14.2

Erich Klossowski and

and postwar life

premonitions of, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3

Wunderly-Volkart, Nanny, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1

Wuthering Heights (Brontë):

Balthus as Heathcliff in, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 17.1, 23.1

Balthus’s early reading of, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2

Balthus’s illustrations for, 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 21.1

Young Girl in White Dress, 20.1, 20.2

Young Woman Getting Ready for the Bath

Yourcenar, Marguerite, 14.1, 21.1

Ziegler, Richard and Lily

Zurbarán, Francisco de

Zurlini, Valerio