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A Life of Henri Matisse; The Early Years, 1869-1908
In this fully illustrated biography, Hilary Spurling sheds an entirely new light on the humiliations and failures that Henri Matisse had to overcome i...
A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
Sonia Orwell, widow of George Orwell, was blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune after he died. Here, Hilary Spurling shows that s...
A Life of Henri Matisse, the Early Years, 1869-1908
The art, youth, early maturity and life of artist Henri Matisse are examined in this biography. Includes 24 pages of color reproductions....
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe to...
The Life
Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso...
A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of ...
Man of the North: 1869-1908
Astonishing and essential, the biography that reclaimed Henri Matisse from history's slanders and restored his place in the canon of the 20th century'...
Pearl Buck in China
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, ...
The Greatest Scandal of the Century
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, this fascinating account describes the astounding life of Therese Humbert, a 19th-century con-artist...
The Greatest Swindle of the Century
While writing her Whitbread Prize-winning Matisse the Master, Hilary Spurling came across the scandal that rocked the French Third Republic. Reading l...
Elizabethan Country House Cooking
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Journey to The Good Earth
One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the...
The true story of a scandal that nearly destroyed the French Third Republic. A hundred years ago Therese Humbert was one of the most powerful women in...
A Life of Henri Matisse: 1909-1954
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005 Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2005 The second in Hilary Spurling's sweeping, two-volume biogr...
A Life of Henri Matisse : the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
The widespread general impression of Matisse as on one hand a somewhat frivolous painter and on the other a rather dull and uninteresting person is lo...
A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twenti...
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
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, ...
Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the same name to be held at Musaee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambraesis, Oct. 23, 2004-January 25 2005, Royal A...
Dancing to the Music of Time
The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twenti...
Esta extensa e fascinante biografia de Henri Matisse, realizada pela jornalista e escritora britânica, baseou-se nos comentários que o próprio pint...
The Early Life of I. Compton-Burnett, 1884-1919
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times 'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Yea...
A Life
Travel Essays from the Hudson Review
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on e...
The Fabric of Dreams
Textiles were the key to Matisse's visual imagination. His ancestors had been weavers for generations: the textures and vibrancy of cloth were in his ...
Thérèse Humbert was the "assumed illegitimate daughter of an American billioniare," but when her hoax was revealed, she spent five years at hard lab...
A Guide to Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time
A Modern Odyssey
A celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history Spanning a rich variety of works from the 19...
The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett : 1920-1969
Returning from the Shore : Paintings 2018
opposing forces
A Handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
la chica del Departamento de Ficción
Otoño de 1940: ha estallado la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Llueven bombas sobre Londres; los teatros han cerrado, y de noche reina la oscuridad por miedo...
Artists' Potter
This is the first full-scale biographical and critical study of Ann Stokes (b.1922), the widow of the art critic Adrian Stokes and a highly unusual po...