Matisse: The Only Blue

· Guernica World Editions
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Matisse: The Only Blue interweaves scenes from the second half of artist Henri Matisse's life in the south of France (1907-1954), with reflections on his artwork. The work explores: artistic creation and community, love and betrayal, landscape, home and exile, family, and war. It portrays an eclectic mix of artists, dancers, models, gallery owners, art patrons, friends and family members, struggling through the upheavals of the first half of Twentieth Century, culminating in the devastating realities of two world wars and the economic collapse wedged in between.
Matisse: The Only Blue interweaves scenes from the second half of artist Henri Matisse's life in the south of France (1907-1954), with reflections on his artwork. The work explores: artistic creation and community, love and betrayal, landscape, home and exile, family, and war. It portrays an ecle...

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Laura Marello is the author of novels: Matisse: The Only Blue, (2022), Gauguin's Moon (2019), Maniac Drifter (2015), Tenants of the Hotel Biron (2012), and Claiming Kin (2010) with Guernica Editions, Toronto. The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories (2015), Tailwinds Press, was shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize in Literature. Her chapbook Balzac's Robe (2015) is out with Finishing Line Press. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, and a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship. After Paris, forthcoming from Guernica Editions 2027, is her first full-length published collection of stories.

Laura Marello is the author of novels: Matisse: The Only Blue, (2022), Gauguin's Moon (2019), Maniac Drifter (2015), Tenants of the Hotel Biron (2012), and Claiming Kin (2010) with Guernica Editions, Toronto. The Gender of Inanimate Objects and Other Stories (2015), Tailwinds Press, was shortlist...

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