Yves Guignard

After completing a BA at the Universität Basel, Yves Guignard defended a doctoral thesis in Lausanne on the German art dealer Wilhelm Uhde. He has worked as a translator from German into French and as a cultural mediator for the Fondation Beyeler, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Fondation de l’Hermitage, and the Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne.

A graphite crayon on paper self portrait of Balthus from 1943

Between Shadow and Light

Scholar and researcher Yves Guignard, who is working on Balthus’s archives for a revision of the Balthus catalogue raisonné, examines the artist’s engagement with drawing, arguing for a more concerted attention to these works than scholarship has paid them.

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Yves Guignard

Between Shadow and Light

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