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Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling

From:     Peter Slater
Category: Books
Date:     10 June 2008
Time:     04:50 AM

Review:

He did that in 1952, then he went there on thursday, then he died. Biographies are soooooo boring. 
The problem is they become really fat and eat too many facts. Then they forget to tell us what the 
subject is thinking or why they did what they did. Like when Matisse gets a divorce from his life 
partner and greatest supporter, there is hardly a comment, unless I was skimming to fast. Matisse 
was very interesting, this book is much less so.


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