I want, I shall have
Graham Robb, 17 February 2000
La Grand Thérèse or The Greatest Swindle of the Century
by Hilary Spurling.
Profile, 128 pp., £7.99, September 1999,9781861971326 Show More
by Hilary Spurling.
Profile, 128 pp., £7.99, September 1999,
“... The role of Thérèse Humbert and her family in the life of Henri Matisse was one of the revelations of the first volume of Hilary Spurling’s pioneering biography: The Unknown Matisse. For more than twenty years, the Humberts were a major force in the social and political life of the Third Republic, until, in 1902, their legendary wealth was exposed as a hoax ... ”