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If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper.
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Anholt's artists volume 6
Publisher
Barrons
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Recounts how Henri Matisse, out of gratitude to a nursing nun named Monique who once took care of him, used his influence as an artist to raise money and design what has since become the world-famous Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 390 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
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