Article: Voluptuous but chaste: the eagerly-awaited second volume of Hilary Spurling's biography of Matisse completes a definitive life.

Article: HENRI AND HILARY.(Henri Matisse biographies by ...
WWD;  August 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... it was Henri Matisse, who was maligned ... his biographer Hilary Spurling came along and ... perceptions of Matisse, especially in ... goddesses or doormats, Matisse liked women who ... Caption(s): Hilary Spurling

Article: No more Mr Nice Guy; Matisse.(Hilary ...
The Economist (US);  March 12, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... s artistic ideas cost him MATISSE always stood out among artists ... Five years before he died, Matisse wrote, "If my story were ... would amaze everyone." Now Hilary Spurling has obliged in the riveting ... opening of an exhibition, "Matisse, His Art and His Textiles ...

Article: Thursday Book: More dangerous than alcohol THE UNKNOWN ...
The Independent - London;  December 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... though this volume ends with Matisse writing his "Notes of a Painter ... poverty. It is well known that Matisse suffered parental opposition ... The depth and intensity of Hilary Spurling's research compel attention from the opening chapter. Matisse grew up in Bohain, in north ...

Article: Matisse biography wins Whitbread Book of the ...
M2 Best Books;  January 25, 2006 ;     576 words ... ... M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The winner of this year's Whitbread Book of the Year award has been named as Hilary Spurling for her biography Matisse the Master. The book is the second of two volumes of Spurling's biography of the French artist ...

Article: Books: Still life with jeers and catcalls Henri Matisse ...
The Independent on Sunday;  March 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... later a powerful advocate of Matisse's work, privately put it ... seven-year-old daughter. Matisse was well used to such humiliation ... volume of her biography, Hilary Spurling revealed how he had grown ... went out of its way to claim Matisse as a famous son - were filled ...

Article: Cultural Comment: Essay: The scandalous triple failure of Henri ...
The Independent - London;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Matisse is perhaps the last major 20th century ... assured me that, unlike Picasso's, Matisse's life was too dull to write about ... my instinct. So little was known about Matisse's private life that people had simply ...

Article: Book Festival: Reviews: CLARE SHORT: MICHAEL MAIL AND FRANCINE ...
The Scotsman;  August 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... subject to "censorship". HILARY SPURLING AS INCREDIBLE as it seems ... biography of the artist Henri Matisse. Hilary Spurling could not believe it herself ... remaining relatives and on Matisse's own remarkable letters ...