Book description
Alfred Wallis was born in 1855 and died in a workhouse in Cornwall in
1942. A fisherman, sailing from Newlyn, Mousehole and St Ives, he began
to paint in the 1920s - strange, brilliant pictures of ships and the
sea. In 1928 he was discovered in St Ives by Ben Nicholson and
Christopher Wood and for the rest of his life, alone in his tiny
cottage, attacked by periods of madness, he painted furiously. In
MATISSE'S WAR, Peter Everett explored the psyche of one of the most
celebrated painters of our age. Here he performs a similar feat for
another artist, one who knew no fame in his lifetime but whose paintings
have found vast popularity since his death.
