The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse : The Early Years, 1869-1908 - Brossura

Spurling, Hilary

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ISBN 10: 0520222032 ISBN 13: 9780520222038

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"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

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0520222032
• ISBN 13: 9780520222038
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 505