books.google.de - 00 Hilary Spurling presents a thorough and riveting account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn...http://books.google.de/books/about/The_Unknown_Matisse.html?hl=de&id=PsIrxtth00IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Unknown Matisse