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 ...

THE second volume of a biography of Henri Matisse which took 15 years to complete was the surprise winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year prize. Hilary Spurling, 65, last night won the £25,000 award ...

Hilary Spurling created a major literary surprise on Tuesday when her biography of the French painter Henri Matisse won Britain's Whitbread Book of the Year award after a battle royal among the judges ...

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 ...

BRITAIN: An acclaimed biography of one of the major artists of the 20th century has won the Whitbread Book of the Year. British writer Hilary Spurling's Matisse the Master, the second and concluding ...

From Fauve colors to Cubist compositions, studio-assisted cut-outs and numerous naked women, few artists have shaped our idea of modernism as much as Henri Matisse. Born on New Year’s Eve 1869 in the ...

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 ...

The BBC’s film Becoming Matisse is, of course, about the artist Henri Matisse. It focuses on his early years in the humdrum northern French town Bohain-en-Vermandois and the struggle to achieve ...

The BBC’s film Becoming Matisse is, of course, about the artist Henri Matisse. It focuses on his early years in the humdrum northern French town Bohain-en-Vermandois and the struggle to achieve ...