![]() ![]() Hilary Spurling won the Whitbread Award for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in 2006. Blow me, Matisse just invents a new art form!” He could no longer do what he’d done all his life. “Many people would have packed it in and called it a day,” Spurling told the documentary’s presenter, Alastair Sooke. As a result, he began to use a wheelchair. Matisse’s cut-outs (gouaches découpés) phase began during World War Two, and shortly after a dangerous operation. ![]() The documentary precedes the opening of the largest ever exhibition of Matisse’s cut-outs, executed in the later years of his career, which will be held at Tate Modern in London. Henri Matisse: A Cut Above The Rest was broadcast on BBC2 on Monday 3 March, and will be available to watch on iPlayer for the next few days. Hilary Spurling, Somerville alumna, Honorary Fellow of the College and award-winning biographer of Henri Matisse, has been featured in a documentary about the French artist’s later works. ![]()
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