Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
The second volume of Hilary Spurling's two-volume biography of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) has been a long time coming (the first volume was published in 1998), but it's worth the wait. The second half of the painter's life was even more eventful than the first. Matisse the Master rejoins the...
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The second volume of Hilary Spurling's two-volume biography of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) has been a long time coming (the first volume was published in 1998), but it's worth the wait. The second half of the painter's life was even more eventful than the first. Matisse the Master rejoins the artist in 1909, when his wealth and international fame already seemed secure. But two world worlds tore France and his family apart; aesthetic tides shifted against him; his marriage ended in bitter failure; and Matisse experimented with his art in radical, unsettling ways. This authoritative 544-page biography is worthy of its subject.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375711534 (0375711538)
Publish date: October 2nd 2007
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Series: Matisse (#2)
bookshelves: published-2005, under-500-ratings, radio-4x, summer-2014, biography, art-forms, nonfiction Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from June 13 to 20, 2014 R4x http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076r2v Description: “If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to ...
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