LONDON - Hilary Spurling won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her biography Matisse the Master, defeating four other authors. The Oxford-educated author claimed the $43,000 prize during a ...
A review of The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1909 by Hilary Spurling. With the second volume of John Richardson’s great Picasso biography already out, it was only a ...
His pictures alone seemed to suggest it, especially the paintings of semi-clad women in harem-like settings that Matisse made in Nice in the 1920s. Then there were the streams of beautiful young women ...