Matisse the Unknown [with] Matisse. The Master
( Henri MATISSE ) SPURLING, Hilary
SIGNED SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Hamish Hamilton, [1998-2005]
Stock code: 34140
Price: £164.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and pedigrees in the text; blue cloth [first volume], buff boards, red cloth back [second volume], gilt backs, coloured endpapers, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
FIRST VOLUME SIGNED [WITHOUT DEDICATION] BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Spurling's masterly biography comprises Vol. I: The Unknown Matisse. A Life of Henri Matisse 1869-1908; Vol. II: Matisse the Master, A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954. A lovely set.