The Unknown Matisse (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilary Spurling
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1869-1908
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Henri Matisse, Amélie Matisse, Hippolyte-Henri and Anna Matisse, Marguerite Matisse, Frédéric and Thérèse Humbert, Armand and Catherine Parayre, Gustave Moreau
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, France or French people, Art or artists, Marriage, Religion, Creative process, Painting or painters, Sculpting or sculptors
- Locales: France
Hilary Spurling was educated at Oxford University and lives in London, England. She writes on literature and theater for the British newspapers The Spectator and The Telepgraph and has also written a biography of the English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Even before his death in 1954 at the age of eighty-four, Henri Matisse was greatly admired throughout the world. The popular image of Henri Matisse is that of a dignified and restrained painter who worked assiduously in his studios and produced extraordinarily refined, colorful, and beautiful paintings for well over...
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