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Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.
Spurling's biography of Matisse, the first volume of a projected two, is a subtle account of a great painter's unfolding.
Spurling's scoop is her explanation of why, after moving several increments toward his mature style, the painter lapsed into a dark period that lasted from 1902-04.
Hilary Spurling's Matisse is a careful and tightly focused attempt to illuminate a painter's development.
Sole drawback: Spurling is "not an especially penetrating commentator on painting" (Kenneth Baker, the San Francisco Chronicle ). (Read the first chapter, courtesy of the New York Times .)