MATISSE THE MASTER. A LIFE OF HENRI MATISSE VOL. 2

With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hila ry Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt, exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence and dis ruption of the twentieth century in paintings that seem now effortlessly serene, radiant and stable.