The second volume of a two-volume biography published to great acclaim, Matisse the Master reveals the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth century. These rich, powerful, and mysteriously moving pictures—which now seem effortless and serene—were made by the real Matisse, whose true story is told here from young adulthood to his later days.

512 pages, 183 illustrations (24 in full color), 7 1/4 in. x 9 1/2 in. Hardcover, with jacket.

Winner of the 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year award.


Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909–1954
03-017720
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