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Article: The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908.(French painter)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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With the second volume of John Richardson's great Picasso biography already out, it was only a matter of time before Matisse (1869-1954.) received equal treatment. Hilary Spurling--a London-based theater critic, literary editor, book reviewer, and biographer--has met the challenge admirably with her book, whose fluidity, depth of research, and level of detail are awe-inspiring.(1) While Spurling does not attempt to do the intense pictorial analysis or to make the art historical references that Richardson does--"This book is a biography, not a work of art history" she writes in the preface--she provides an extraordinarily rich and fascinating context for understanding ...
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