Met’s Balthus Show Is “Rather Strange”
Roberta Smith writes: ‘“Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations,†at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [is] a rather strange, even refreshing exercise. It does not march toward the inevitable triumph like most tributes to leading modern artists. It proceeds in fits and starts; many of the paintings are interesting in one way or another but not especially original or even very convincing as totalities.’ Pictured is the 1955 “Girl at a Window.”
