Balthus Dies The reclusive internationally known painter, shown in a 1998 photograph and in a 1935 self-portrait that he called "The King of Cats," was 92.

This reclusive painter of deliberate, dreamlike landscapes, still lifes and portraits was born in Detroit in 1928.

He is as much of a perfectionist in his own way as Myron Stout, another reclusive painter obsessed with the relationship between figure and ground.

Ms. Adato was the first woman to receive a Directors Guild of America Award, presented in 1977 for the O'Keeffe biography, the only one that the reclusive painter ever allowed to be done.

Quark guessed that the reclusive painter did not travel much, and so he was probably not accustomed to the sense of speed and the steep angle of takeoff from a planetary surface.

A mordant, funny novel about a reclusive German painter who lives in the south of France and broods on many things.

Michael Brenson of the New York Times described him as a "reclusive painter of deliberate, dreamlike landscapes, still lifes and portraits."

Trials and tribulations await a reclusive painter summoned to the bedside of his dying stepfather.

A reclusive famous painter, Frenhofer (Piccoli), lives quietly with his wife and former model (Birkin) in a rambling château in rural Languedoc-Roussillon.

However, Johnson's relations with MCA cooled with this release, and he would ultimately become a reclusive but successful painter, after announcing in 1993 that he was infected with HIV.