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 ...

As everyone knows, we have become suspicious of beauty, harmony and wholeness as artistic goals. And so, although Hilary Spurling’s massive two-volume biography has revealed the struggles of Matisse, ...

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 ...

BiographyAmazingly, Henri Matisse, who died in 1954, had no biography until recently. The publication of the second volume of Hilary Spurling's biography covers the last 45 years of the artist's life ...

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 ...

A review of The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1909 by Hilary Spurling. With the second volume of John Richardson’s great Picasso biography already out, it was only a ...

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 ...

The first volume of Spurling's magisterial biography, The Unknown Matisse, covered his evolution into a painter. This second volume opens with his adjusting to the status—albeit controversial—of ...

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 ...

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 ...