The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908
by Spurling, Hilary
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- ISBN 10
- 0520222032
- ISBN 13
- 9780520222038
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Synopsis
'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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- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- O06B-02055
- Title
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908
- Author
- Spurling, Hilary
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520222032
- ISBN 13
- 9780520222038
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- This edition first published
- 2001-10
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