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 ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

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 ...

Hilary Spurling has won the Whitbread Book of the Year for the second part of her Matisse biography, Matisse the Master. In addition to the recognition the award brings, she picked up a cheque for £25 ...

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 ...

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him It’s hard to be precise about what’s going on in this deceptively simple 1924 picture by Henri Matisse. In French, it’s called ...

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 ...