The Mountain
by Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) (1908 - 2001)
Painting
"The Mountain" is one of Balthus's most important early works. Completed in 1937, three years after the artist's first one-man exhibition, at age twenty-six, this majestic panorama is also his largest canvas and one of the few that depicts figures in a landscape. First exhibited in 1939 with the title "Summer," it remains the only completed painting in a projected cycle of the four seasons.
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