The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1)

Author: Hilary Spurling

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Price : 39.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780140176049
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 1.306
Publication date : February 2000
Dimensions : 233mm X 179mm X 32mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Pages : 512
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'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' "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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