The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908 - Softcover

Spurling, Hilary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520222032 ISBN 13: 9780520222038

Publisher: University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

Hilary Spurling presents a thorough and riveting account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn northern temperament helped sustain him through many challenges, both artistic and financial, as he found his way as a painter.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Hilary Spurling, most accomplished of biographers, sheds an entirely new light on the humiliations and failures that Henri Matisse had to overcome in order to develop into the greatest French painter of the century. Her account of Matisse's early years is as riveting as a novel by Zola."—John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso

About the Author:

Hilary Spurling has been a theater critic and literary editor for The Spectator, is now a book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph, and has written biographies of Ivy Compton-Burnett and Paul Scott. She is presently at work on Volume Two of The Unknown Matisse.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0520222032
• ISBN 13: 9780520222038
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 505