Cover art for The Unknown Matisse
Published
Penguin, May 2000
ISBN
9780140176049
Format
Softcover, 512 pages
Dimensions
23.3cm × 17.9cm × 3.2cm

The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse Volume 1 of 2 volumebiography by

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"Hilary Spurling's THE UNKNOWN MATISSE is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in narrative who has unearthed a fascinating story and told it brilliantly.

I rate this first volume with the first volume of Richard Holmes's COLERIDGE . Both books mark a climax in what has been called a golden age of modern biography which began with Richard Ellman's JAMES JOYCE. It is a terrific achievement." Michael Holroyd

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