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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hilary Spurling's Matisse the Master has won the £25,000 Whitbread Book of the Year award, beating the bookmakers' favourite, The Accidental by Ali Smith. Spurling, who spent 15 years writing and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...