"Several years after the death of Balthus, some two thousand photographic documents were found at The Grand Chalet in Rossinière, Switzerland. These previously undiscovered documents have been carefully preserved and edited to form a chonological archive catalogued by theme, pose, composition, subject, object, motif and place, thus creating a coherent corpus that allows a fuller understanding of the painter's lengthy preparatory process"--Introductory text by Benoît Peverelli.
