Matisse The Master: A Life Of Henri Matisse The Conquest Of Colour 1909-1954
by Spurling, Hilary
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- ISBN 10
- 0679434291
- ISBN 13
- 9780679434290
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Hilary Spurling was born in England and educated at Oxford University. She has been theater critic and literary editor of The Spectator and a book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph, and has written biographies of Ivy Compton-Burnett and Paul Scott. The first volume of her biography of Henri Matisse, The Unknown Matisse, was an Editors’ Choice book of The New York Times . Since its publication, Ms. Spurling has written and lectured extensively on Matisse and originated an exhibition about the importance of textiles in the artist’s life and work that opened at the Royal Academy in London in the spring of 2005 and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the summer of 2005. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Book Grove (US)
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- Title
- Matisse The Master: A Life Of Henri Matisse The Conquest Of Colour 1909-1954
- Author
- Spurling, Hilary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679434291
- ISBN 13
- 9780679434290
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, MD
- Date Published
- 2005
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- Hilary Spurling, Matisse The Master: A Life Of Henri Matisse The Conquest Of Colour 1909-1954
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