A beautiful collection of studies as well as finished drawings and watercolors of the French painter Balthus, whose work has carried the thread of a hushed and delicate realism through all the changing movements in twentieth-century art. Included are a sequence of illustrations for Wuthering Heights, theater and costume designs, subtly nuanced still-lifes and landscapes, and haunting studies of young women. The book is compiled and introduced with an essay by Italian art historian Giovanni Carandente