Title
Matisse the master : a life of Henri Matisse, the conquest of colour, 1909-1954 / Hilary Spurling.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0679434291
Imprint
New York : A.A. Knopf, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 512 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9780679434290
Call Number
N6853.M33 S678 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.4 B
Summary
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.
Note
Companion volume to the author's: The unknown Matisse.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-496) and index.
1909: Paris, Cassis and Cavalière
1910: Issy-les-Moulineaux, Collioure and Spain
1911: Seville, Paris, Collioure and Moscow
1912-1913: Tangier and Paris
1913-1915: Paris and Tangier
1916-1918: Paris and Nice
1919-1922: Nice, Paris, London and Etretat
1923-1928: Nice and Paris
1929-1933: Nice, Paris, America and Tahiti
1933-1939: Nice and Paris
1939-1945: Paris, Nice, Ciboure, St-Gaudens and Vence
1945-1954: Vence, Paris and Nice.
