Two clothbound hardcover books housed in a handmade, clothbound box.
Vol. 1: 1256 polaroid photos, 208 pages
Vol. 2: 99 polaroid photos, 222 pages

‘Balthus – The Last Studies’ is an undisclosed corpus of nearly two thousand photographs produced during the last ten years of the painter’s life.

They are the preliminary studies for his last three major paintings. His hands incapacitated by old age, Balthus resorted to the camera as a sort of prosthesis, at once eye, hand and pencil, thus reassuming the mysterious ritual of sketching, for him the one and only way to approach and define the mental image from which the painting’s composition would proceed.