July 06, 2016

Spotting an Unauthorized Balet Print

July 06, 2016/ John Balet

One of the things that we hoped to accomplish when we launched janbalet.com was that we would connect with art lovers who owned some of my father’s work.

Jan Balet: The Artist & His Works

Jan Balet (1913-2009) was a German-born artist best known in the U.S. for his success in the 40s, 50s and 60s as a commercial illustrator in New York City, where he designed for major corporations and publications and authored and illustrated children's books. Returning to Europe in 1965, this self-proclaimed “sophisticated primitive” continued as a children's book author and illustrator, but spent the majority of his final years creating a vast body of work through painting, etching, lithographs, and watercolors.