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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.

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"This is a delightful book, at once vivid, direct and modest, in which Everett has found a verbal technique precisely to match Wallis's handling of paint" Independent "Everett sustains the voice of the old man remarkably, creating a salty, cantankerous outcast" Sunday Times
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Born in 1855, Alfred Wallis died in a workhouse in 1942. A mariner since his boyhood, he began to paint in the 1920s - strange, primitive, 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 this novel Everett gives voice to this famously 'naive' artist, spinning tales of the sea and of old St Ives, capturing in words the very worlds that Wallis depicted in ship's paint on scraps of cardboard.

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0224059874
  • ISBN 13 9780224059879
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