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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
by Hilary Spurling
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679434283
- ISBN 13
- 9780679434283
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Synopsis
'Hilary Spurling's THE UNKNOWN MATISSE is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in narrative who has unearthed a fascinating story and told it brilliantly. I rate this first volume with the first volume of Richard Holmes's COLERIDGE . Both books mark a climax in what has been called a golden age of modern biography which began with Richard Ellman's JAMES JOYCE. It is a terrific achievement." Michael Holroyd
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- Magus Books
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- 1122249
- Title
- The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
- Author
- Hilary Spurling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679434283
- ISBN 13
- 9780679434283
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1998
- Pages
- 480
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