Balthus was ten years old when he told, in forty wonderful drawings, the story of his life with his cat Mitsou.
Writer Rainer Maria Rilke, a friend of the family, dazzled by the young painter’s talent and sensing the importance of these drawings already representative of the Balthusian universe, wrote the preface and supported the publication of this volume.
Ivan Pericoli and Benoît Astier de Villatte, also cat lovers who have always adored Mitsou, decided to commission from Monsieur Huin, a master typographer from their printing house (the last that uses typographic presses), a new edition that perfectly duplicates the 1921 original.
