The Unknown Matisse: a Life of Henri Matisse: the Early Years, 1869-1908.(Book Review)

Hollins Critic | June 1, 1999| | Copyright

The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908. By Hilary Spurling. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. $40.00

Though few today will question the statement of the biographer of Picasso, John Richardson, that Henri Matisse developed into "the greatest French painter of this century," few will think of the artist as anything but cool, controlled, and very bourgeois. They may know of his daughter Marguerite, whose mother was his mistress Camille, but their quick judgment of Matisse will be of a painter steadily holding a brush to paint rich, ...

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