Numerous books survey Henri Matisse's paintings, drawings and sculpture in reproduction, but none paid proper attention to the artist's life before Hilary Spurling completed her involving, sympathetic ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

Writer Hilary Spurling was celebrating on Wednesday after her epic biography of French artist Henri Matisse scooped one of Britain's most prestigious literary awards. "Matisse The Master", the second ...

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 ...

Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...

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 ...