Balthus: for the love of cats and girls – in pictures

Thérèse, 1938
Photograph: Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Girl at a Window, 1955 Photograph: Courtesy of Private collection

Thérèse on a Bench Seat, 1939
Photograph: Courtesy of Dorothy R. and Richard E. Sherwood Family Collection

Thérèse Dreaming, 1938
Photograph: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nude with Cat, 1949
Photograph: Courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Mitsou, 1919
Photograph: Courtesy of Private collection

The Cat of La Méditerranée, 1949
Photograph: Courtesy of Private collection

The Golden Days, 1944-1946
Photograph: Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute

The King of Cats, 1935
Photograph: Courtesy of Fondation Balthus, SwitzerlandFondation Balthus, Switzerland

Mitsou, 1919
Photograph: Courtesy of Private collection

The Moth, 1959
Photograph: Courtesy of Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou

The Salon I, 1941-43
Photograph: Courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Arts