The Unknown Matisse: A Life Of Henri Matisse: Volume One 1869-1908
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and sound.
Before Henri Matisse became the towering colossus of modern art, he was an unknown — a struggling, often desperate painter who battled poverty, ridicule, and self-doubt for nearly two decades before the world took notice. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse chronicles the first forty years of the artist's life, from his origins in the industrial north of France through the revolutionary breakthrough that would culminate in the Fauvist explosion of 1905, reconstructing a world of artistic ferment, domestic hardship, and fierce creative ambition with remarkable precision and intimacy. Spurling, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, draws on previously untapped archives, family papers, and personal correspondence to present a portrait of Matisse that is entirely at odds with the serene master of colour and light the public came to know. This first volume of her two-part life illustrates how suffering and struggle were the very crucible of his genius, and argues that the radical art Matisse would unleash upon the world was forged not in comfort, but in crisis. Readers who believe they know Matisse will find, by the final page, that they are only just meeting him.
Author: Hilary Spurling
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and sound.
Before Henri Matisse became the towering colossus of modern art, he was an unknown — a struggling, often desperate painter who battled poverty, ridicule, and self-doubt for nearly two decades before the world took notice. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse chronicles the first forty years of the artist's life, from his origins in the industrial north of France through the revolutionary breakthrough that would culminate in the Fauvist explosion of 1905, reconstructing a world of artistic ferment, domestic hardship, and fierce creative ambition with remarkable precision and intimacy. Spurling, one of Britain's most celebrated biographers, draws on previously untapped archives, family papers, and personal correspondence to present a portrait of Matisse that is entirely at odds with the serene master of colour and light the public came to know. This first volume of her two-part life illustrates how suffering and struggle were the very crucible of his genius, and argues that the radical art Matisse would unleash upon the world was forged not in comfort, but in crisis. Readers who believe they know Matisse will find, by the final page, that they are only just meeting him.