Matisse
  • Published: 15 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141030784
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $37.99

Matisse

The Life

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'Inspired, innovative, remarkable' Independent

Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master were together heralded as the definitive biography of the artist, and Matisse the Master went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 2005.

In this abridged, one-volume edition, Hilary Spurling reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent, provides a unique insight into his life and work, and, by documenting the difficult path he took alone, clearly places him at the front rank of those who made art modern.
  • Published: 15 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141030784
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $37.99
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About the author

Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919, and the Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award for Secrets of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920-1969. She is also the author of Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book, Paper Spirits and The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. She has been Arts and Literary Editor of the Spectator, and a regular reviewer for the Observer, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph.

Also by Hilary Spurling

Anthony Powell
The Girl from the Fiction Department
Matisse the Master
Invitation To The Dance
The Unknown Matisse
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Praise for Matisse

Spurling at her brilliant best as passionate scholar, traveller and storyteller . . . Lavishly illustrated and lovingly well written'

Daily Telegraph on 'The Unknown Matisse'

An outstanding biography, as full of insights into the pictures as it is revealing about the man

The Times on 'Matisse the Master'

Destined to remain the standard biography for a long time. Spurling has done better than anyone else at uncovering intimate information about Matisse

Guardian on 'Matisse the Master'
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