Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. This title reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent and provides an insight into his life and work.

Presents the biography of Matisse.

Beautiful and intelligent, Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in 1984 - lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to George Orwell changed her life for ever. Burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell's estate, Sonia's loyalty to her late husband brought her nothing but poverty and despair.

A biographical and critical study of Ann Stokes (b1922), the widow of the art critic Adrian Stokes and a highly unusual potter who creates bold, uninhibited works. It is suitable for art historians, collectors, decorative arts specialists and cultural historians.

Contains character, book, painting and place indices. This work is a database of Anthony Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. It details over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's fifty-year dance of fiction and fact.

Presents an exploration of Matisse's world, bringing out the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art. This second volume tells the story of Matisse's growing artistic maturity and the relationship between his life and art from 1909 to 1954, his glory years.

Offers an exploration of Matisse's world, uncovering the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art. This volume tells the story of Matisse's growing artistic maturity and the relationship between his life and art from 1909 to 1954, his glory years.

Therese Humbert was one of the most conspicuous women of fin-de-siecle Paris. Her astronomical wealth, as the illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire, was known to all and she lived a life of sumptuous extravagance. But it was all a hoax.

Pearl Buck, one of the bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist, was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. This biography presents a portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Buck.

This sumptuously illustrated book explores for the first time Matisse's relationship with the textiles that surrounded him from his earliest days.