Jean Leymarie Boeken

Marc Chagall's magnificent stained-glass windows installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center in Jerusalem are no doubt among the most inspiring and beautiful pieces of twentieth-century art."

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A monograph on Coco Chanel that provides a general overview of Chanel's creative history, from her early days, when she mingled with Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Luchino Visconti, to the development of her legacy after her death by Karl Lagerfeld.

Balthus is one of the most elusive of living painters. This book offers an insight into the mind and work of the artist, bringing together a wide selection of his most important pictures from the 1930s to the present. Photographs include Balthus at work as a young artist in his studio.