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Hilary Spurling

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Spurling devoted two volumes and more than 1,000 pages to her biography of Henri Matisse, and it is clear that she fell in love with the great artist by the time she had finished. Critics labeled Matisse the Master and its predecessor a monumental achievement worthy of its subject, and they noted that the second volume could easily stand on its own.

Matisse the Master book. This volume contains many sketches, color plates of his art and photographs as well to enhance your reading experience. If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954. 0679434291 (ISBN13: 9780679434290).

Eight years after the publication of her first volume on the life of 20th-century French post-impressionist painter Henri Matisse, The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri . Hilary Spurling was born in 1940 in Stockport England. She attended Somerville College in Oxford

Eight years after the publication of her first volume on the life of 20th-century French post-impressionist painter Henri Matisse, The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869. She attended Somerville College in Oxford. She bacame the arts and theater critic for The Spectator during the 1960's.

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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour . For anyone interested in Matisse's work, this book will be a revelation.

Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909 - 1950 - Hilary Spurling. If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone, wrote Henri Matisse.

Author: Spurling, Hilary. Shelf: 759/4/SPU/2005. Notes: Companion volume to the author's : The unknown Matisse. Publishing Info: New York : Knopf ; London : Hamish Hamilton, 2005. Physical Info: xxi, 512 . p. of plates : ill. (some co., ports. some co. ; 24 cm. Konu Başlığı: Matisse, Henri, 1869 - 1954. Artists - France - Biography. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL (born 25 December 1940) is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer. 2005, Whitbread Book of the Year award for Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954

Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL (born 25 December 1940) is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006. Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China was published in March 2010. 2005, Whitbread Book of the Year award for Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954. 2010, James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, for Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China.

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“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated baseless fabrications about his private life. Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse) shows us 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 in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant, and stable.Here for the first time is the truth about Matisse’s models, especially two Russians: his pupil Olga Meerson and the extraordinary Lydia Delectorskaya, who became his studio manager, secretary, and companion in the last two decades of his life.But every woman who played an important part in Matisse’s life was remarkable in her own right, not least his beloved daughter Marguerite, whose honesty and courage surmounted all ordeals, including interrogation and torture by the Gestapo in the Second World War.If you have ever wondered how anyone with such a tame public image as Matisse could have painted such rich, powerful, mysteriously moving pictures, let alone produced the radical cut-paper and stained-glass inventions of his last years, here is the answer. They were made by the real Matisse, whose true story has been written down at last from start to finish by his first biographer, Hilary Spurling.From the Hardcover edition.

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never thought i'd read this entire book not skipping a page but i joyfully did. it's big around 500 pgs or more. It is superb writing, research, understanding of art and especially her understanding and ability to talk about the human dynamics of this huge family and all who came in touch with Matisse. Highly recommended. a side review are her depictions of WW II in France on a day to day basis in the small towns and villages - how it was part of everyone's life involved with Matisse - she brought that war home to me in a way i could know it, feel it. The complicated and twirled relationships Matisse had with all the people around him. Spurling superbly gives it to us, the reader. Matisse was huge in his ability to love people, cultures, the beauty of light, color, experimentation and - always digging deeper, never losing focus of what he was about & was on this planet for - to make visible to others the beauty of art, music, soul & life coming together. Matisse' relentless ability to "keep your head down and be in the moment" is absolutely the best inspirational cocktail ever. When i read this bio i also had the gigantic catalog of the MOMA retrospective of his life's work, highly recommended. Such a treat for me. Matisse has always been a favorite artist for me, and now so totally in love with him like all the others who were lucky enough to be a part of his life. so thank you Hilary Spurling!

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In the second volume of her unmatched biography of Matisse, Spurling completes the archetypal story of The Artist. As clearly as one could desire, she portrays a man to whom everyone and everything in life was subordinated to Work. It is a vivid picture of how subservience to an inner urge, a personality-dominant characteristic, can allow a man, in desperate need of family, friends,colleagues, art-community support and recognition, can turn these into instruments of achievement, as measured by what they mean for accomplishment of his own objectives. It is likely that many of us would deny respect to the businessman, the politician, the journalist, who acted in such manner, but the Artist (at least, not when personally related to us ) is generally respected for his commitment. In Matisse's case, Spurling shows how he did care for others, do his best to advance them in their personal and professional lives, but, at rock bottom, was prepared to sacrifice their interests, their well-being, to his gift. I used the word obsessed because their is every evidence that Matisse, as was Picasso, the other recognized Giant of his era in French Art, could no help himself.
Aside from this fascinating aspects of his life, Spurling explores, better than has been done previously, his relationship to the major figures and many of the minor ones, in his life. She also explores the life circumstances from which emerged the various notable patterns in his work, in particular, she details the deteriorating health situation from which came some of the most striking visual imagery of the twentieth century.
There is much else to be found in this second volume of a set prerequisite to understanding the life and work of Matisse. Certainly, this book is among the "must reads" for any amateur (or professional) student of Modern Art.

Defolosk

Do not buy this for reproductions - they are small and only serve to remind you of the key works mentioned. Do buy it if you are interested in one of the most fascinating, important painters of modern times. Full of pertinent and/or fascinating information of a time and a place not so long ago of a world of art and politics continually changing in new and exciting way.

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A thick book but great for research and photos to support the text

Arador

The completion of a two-volume, chronological biography on one of the last century's most significant artists. Hilary Spurling writes with deep understanding and knowledge of Henri Matisse, his family, close helpers and models, and his color driven art.

I found the author's treatment of key collectors to be of special interest, from the Russian Shchukin to Baltimore's Etta Cone. And the near mad Dr. Barnes of Merion, Pennsylvania.

As a result of unconnected events -- the Russian revolution, the Nazi regime's hatred of modern art, and Dr. Barnes' seclusion of his vast collection -- many of Matisse's most important works were not available to the public and hence his full artistic record was generally unknown for many years.

While I respect that this was a biography (it ends with the subject's death in 1954), an afterward on the state of Matisse's current reputation in the world of art would have been welcomed.

Vudomuro

With accompanying color pages of Matisse's works and family photographs, this biography includes many references to the models from which the artist worked. Provides a time-line documenting the artist's work during two world wars, his frustrations, inspiration, and relationships with his collectors and his family. A well-drawn narrative.

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