The text was also printed on this paper, uniquely watermarked with the coat of arms of the family Klossowski de Rola. They were mounted on mould made paper from the Arches mill, in Epinal, France. The Balthus drawings have been turned into lithographic plates and printed, in brown-toned black ink, on fine Japanese paper by Bruce Porter at his Trestle Editions in New York City. Fifteen lithographs and Afterword by Balthus. Happy to behold their fruition, Balthus wrote an Afterword for the book. Sixty-one years later, and after creating a vast array of famous paintings, many reminiscent of those drawings, Balthus agreed in 1994 to have The Limited Editions Club present, for the first time in their destined context, the entire suite of fifteen drawings. Some say that he saw himself as Heathcliff. In his youth, the Count visited that wild landscape and, in 1933, made a series of drawings based on her gripping novel. What could they have had in common-Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris-born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily Brontë, the mid-nineteenth century British spinster who seems never to have left the Yorkshire moors? Precisely, those moors.
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