The Unknown Matisse

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art, youth, early maturity and life of artist Henri Matisse are examined in this biography. Includes 24 pages of color reproductions.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0679434291
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse the Master written by Hilary Spurling and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0375711333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images--yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer Hilary Spurling, the unknown Matisse becomes visible at last. Matisse was born into a family of shopkeepers in 1869, in a gloomy textile town in the north of France. His environment was brightened only by the sumptuous fabrics produced by the local weavers--magnificent brocades and silks that offered Matisse his first vision of light and color, and which later became a familiar motif in his paintings. He did not find his artistic vocation until after leaving school, when he struggled for years with his father, who wanted him to take over the family seed-store. Escaping to Paris, where he was scorned by the French art establishment, Matisse lived for fifteen years in great poverty--an ordeal he shared with other young artists and with Camille Joblaud, the mother of his daughter, Marguerite. But Matisse never gave up. Painting by painting, he struggled toward the revelation that beckoned to him, learning about color, light, and form from such mentors as Signac, Pissarro, and the Australian painter John Peter Russell, who ruled his own art colony on an island off the coast of Brittany. In 1898, after a dramatic parting from Joblaud, Matisse met and married Amélie Parayre, who became his staunchest ally. She and their two sons, Jean and Pierre, formed with Marguerite his indispensable intimate circle. From the first day of his wedding trip to Ajaccio in Corsica, Matisse realized that he had found his spiritual home: the south, with its heat, color, and clear light. For years he worked unceasingly toward the style by which we know him now. But in 1902, just as he was on the point of achieving his goals as a painter, he suddenly left Paris with his family for the hometown he detested, and returned to the somber, muted palette he had so recently discarded. Why did this happen? Art historians have called this regression Matisse's "dark period," but none have ever guessed the reason for it. What Hilary Spurling has uncovered is nothing less than the involvement of Matisse's in-laws, the Parayres, in a monumental scandal which threatened to topple the banking system and government of France. The authorities, reeling from the divisive Dreyfus case, smoothed over the so-called Humbert Affair, and did it so well that the story of this twenty-year scam--and the humiliation and ruin its climax brought down on the unsuspecting Matisse and his family--have been erased from memory until now. It took many months for Matisse to come to terms with this disgrace, and nearly as long to return to the bold course he had been pursuing before the interruption. What lay ahead were the summers in St-Tropez and Collioure; the outpouring of "Fauve" paintings; Matisse's experiments with sculpture; and the beginnings of acceptance by dealers and collectors, which, by 1908, put his life on a more secure footing. Hilary Spurling's discovery of the Humbert Affair and its effects on Matisse's health and work is an extraordinary revelation, but it is only one aspect of her achievement. She enters into Matisse's struggle for expression and his tenacious progress from his northern origins to the life-giving light of the Mediterranean with rare sensitivity. She brings to her task an astonishing breadth of knowledge about his family, about fin-de-siècle Paris, the conventional Salon painters who shut their doors on him, his artistic comrades, his early patrons, and his incipient rivalry with Picasso. In Hilary Spurling, Matisse has found a biographer with a detective's ability to unearth crucial facts, the narrative power of a novelist, and profound empathy for her subject.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241984041
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astonishing and essential, the biography that reclaimed Henri Matisse from history's slanders and restored his place in the canon of the 20th century's greatest artists Before acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling turned her attention to Henri Mattise, precious few facts were known about his life - and those few were distorted by inaccuracy, misunderstanding and glaring gaps. The Unknown Matisse investigates the secret life of The Wild Beast (as he was known), whose early paintings shocked and enraged his contemporaries. It tells the story of an innovative genius, born in war-torn, poverty-stricken Flanders who finally overcame hardship and disaster to fulfil Van Gogh's prophecy: 'The painter of the future will be such a colourist as has never yet been.'

Author : John Russell
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810929913
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse written by John Russell and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the great Post-Impressionist artist Henri Matisse and his son, influential art dealer Pierre Matisse, is at the heart of this deftly revealing and moving biography, now in paperback. 96 illustrations, 48 in full color.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2009 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master were together heralded as the definitive biography of the artist, and Matisse the Master went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 2005. In this abridged, one-volume edition, Hilary Spurling reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent, provides a unique insight into his life and work, and, by documenting the difficult path he took alone, clearly places him at the front rank of those who made art modern.

Author : Jack Cowart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henri Matisse written by Jack Cowart and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 171 paintings concentrated on works produced by Henri Matisse during the 1920s, when he lived in the South of France.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756779214
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully illustrated biography, Hilary Spurling sheds an entirely new light on the humiliations and failures that Henri Matisse had to overcome in order to develop into the greatest French painter of the 21st century. She skillfully evokes the French art scene of those changing years and conveys what Matisse was looking at, what he experimented with, endured and suffered. Because his family maintained strict control of both personal archives and posthumous privacy, no full biography of Matisse has ever been written until now. This superlative book -- the first of two volumes -- successful marries scholarship of a very high order with a vivid, energetically-paced text. 3A splendid work.2 3This book is marvelous to read.2

Author : Alfred H. Barr (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse. His Art and His Public written by Alfred H. Barr (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: