Located in Paris, on the Cour de Rohan, a secluded courtyard that dates back to the 16th century, you’ll find Studio once belonged to Polish-French modern artist – Balthasar Klossowski, best known as Balthus. The current owner, a Frenchman who now lives in New York, bought the property around 1999, and now wants to sell it, asking $9million. He renovated the home to create a mix between a New York loft and the French countryside. About 3,068 square feet home has four bedrooms and four bathrooms.
Balthus (1908 – 2001) was reclusive French painter who, in the midst of 20th-century avant-gardism, explored the traditional categories of European painting: the landscape, the still life, the subject painting, and the portrait. He is best known for his controversial depictions of adolescent girls.
Balthus was given a successful show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1956, and he served as director of the French Academy in Rome from 1961 to 1977 (earning André Malraux’s praise as France’s “second ambassador to Italy”). He was honoured with huge retrospectives at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1983 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1984. He spent the last two decades of the century as a virtual recluse in Switzerland, where he lived in a grand, 18th-century chalet with his second wife. He continued to paint into his 90s.
