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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Henri Matisse, the son of a merchant family from cold, grey Picardy, in northern France, was pulled inexorably south by the promise of art and light. While serving as a law clerk in the town of ...

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 ...

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 ...