The Street Size:Small - 12x10 inches Ronnie Cutrone

Ronnie Cutrone

An almost palpable flood of moonlight breaks through the clouds in a great vault that spans the banks of the channel and illuminates the sky and the water

features a table on which rests a napkin and a bowl of food that can also be seen as a landscape in which the bowl becomes a bay and the contents appear to be distant mountains

She's trapped in a small room with a purple floor and green walls

The Street Size:Small - 12x10 inches Ronnie CutroneThe Street, Balthus's first large painting, was one of several that scandalized audiences when it was included in the artist's earliest solo exhibition, in Paris in 1934. Balthus eschewed stylistic categorization, but The Street was of great interest to Surrealist artists for its rendering of a crowded street as an uncanny site of mental isolation and for its exploration of sexual taboos.