@article{304585,
      recid = {304585},
      author = {Spurling, Hilary. and Matisse, Henri, and Spurling,  Hilary.},
      title = {Matisse the master : a life of Henri Matisse, the conquest  of colour, 1909-1954 /},
      publisher = {A.A. Knopf,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxi, 512 p., [24] p. of plates :},
      year = {2005},
      note = {Companion volume to the author's: The unknown Matisse.},
      abstract = {It is hard to believe today that Matisse 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, this biography shows us the painter as he saw  himself. With unprecedented access to new material,  Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and  self-doubt. Here for the first time is the truth about  Matisse's models; but every woman who played a 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.--From publisher  description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/304585},
}