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　　“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully fromstart to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. Itis hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw hugecrowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled andridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; hesimply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left theworld to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these weregenerally false and often damaging. Throughout his life andafterward people fantasized about his models and circulatedbaseless fabrications about his private life.
　　Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second halfof the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse)shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented andunrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, andother new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents alifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse’sattempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentiethcentury in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant,and stable.

“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 today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge
crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and
ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he
simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the
world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were
generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and
afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated
baseless fabrications about his private life. 
　　Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half
of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse)
shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and
unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and
other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a
lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse’s
attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth
century in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant,
and stable. 
Here for the first time is the truth about Matisse’s models,
especially two Russians: his pupil Olga Meerson and the
extraordinary Lydia Delectorskaya, who became his studio manager,
secretary, and companion in the last two decades of his life. 
　　But every woman who played an important part in Matisse’s life
was remarkable in her own right, not least his beloved daughter
Marguerite, whose honesty and courage surmounted all ordeals,
including interrogation and torture by the Gestapo in the Second
World War. 
　　If you have ever wondered how anyone with such a tame public
image as Matisse could have painted such rich, powerful,
mysteriously moving pictures, let alone produced the radical
cut-paper and stained-glass inventions of his last years, here is
the answer. They were made by the real Matisse, whose true story
has been written down at last from start to finish by his first
biographer, Hilary Spurling. 
　　From the Hardcover edition.

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作者简介

　　Hilary Spurling was born in England and educated at Oxford University. She has been theater critic and literary editor of The Spectator and a book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph, and has written biographies of Ivy Compton-Burnett and Paul Scott. The first volume of her biography of Henri Matisse, The Unknown Matisse, was an Editors’ Choice book of The New York Times. Since its publication, Ms. Spurling has written and lectured extensively on Matisse and originated an exhibition about the importance of textiles in the artist’s life and work that opened at the Royal Academy in London in the spring of 2005 and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the summer of 2005.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

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Illustrations
Preface
CHAPTER ONE?1909: Paris, Cassis and Cavali~re
CHAPTER TWO?1910." Issy-les-Moulineaux, Collioure and Spain
CHAPTER THREE?1911: Seville, Paris, Collioure and Moscow
CHAPTER FOUR?1912—1913: Tangier andParis
CAPTER FrVE?1913-1915: Paris and Tangier
CHAPTER SIX?1916—1918: Paris and Nice
CHAPTER SEVEN?1919—1922: Nice, Paris, London and Etretat
cHAPTER EIGHT?1923—1928: Nice and Paris
CHAPTER NINE?1929—1933: Nice, Paris, America and Tahiti
CHAPTER TEN .1933—1939: Nice and Paris
CHAPTER ELEVEN?1939—1945: Paris, Nice, Cihoure, St-Gaudens andVence
CHAPTER TWELVE?1945—1954: Vence, Paris and Nice

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