Books written by Michael Peppiatt

Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

Autobiographies and biographies.
Francis Bacon - Anatomie d'une énigme

Michael Peppiatt signe ici une biographie de référence, enrichie dans cette nouvelle édition d’éléments inconnus jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris

Now, in the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, this book celebrates his genius, tracing his development from the tiny sculptures he made during World War II to the characteristically emaciated figures of his mature style.
The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings

Let metell you that nothing of real value has been achieved in art since Rubens.' Since the professor himself was acknowledged as the leading authority on Rubens, I took this ruling to be a self-evident truth. Yet the remark rankled, ...
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

... 148, 398 Rosenberg, Paul (Paris Gallery) 65, 70 Rothenstein, Sir John 61, 124, 134-5, 230-1 on FB 230, 232, 235 'Rothko Affair' 403, 408-9 Rousseau, Theodore (Ted) 330 Rubens prize, awarded to FB 243 rug designs by FB 57-8 Russell, ...
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

Yet many of themost prominent Britishartists, fromBen Nicholson and Paul Nash toChristopher Wood and Edward Wadsworth, had visitedor livedin Parisand been confronted, like Bacon,with themost radical art of theday.
Francis Bacon in Your Blood

Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing.
Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris

" "This book is the catalogue for an exhibition to be held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England, and at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In Giacometti's Studio

"This deeply engaging book focuses on one of the most evocative and influential spaces in twentieth-century art: the tiny, ramshackle studio behind Montparnasse where the great sculptor Alberto Giacometti lived and worked from the late 1926 ...
Interviews with Artists 1966-2012

A renowned curator and respected insider of the international art scene since the mid-1960s, Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th...
Art Plural: Voices of Contemporary Art

While Peppiatt frames their work in a historical context, the artists themselves reflect deeply on their influences, styles, techniques and messages through personal interviews in this lavishly illustrated book."--From back cover.
The Existential Englishman: Paris Among the Artists

The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris – a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure.
Francis Bacon in Your Blood

Bacon is felt with immediacy, as Peppiatt draws from contemporary diaries and records of their time together, giving us the story of a friendship, and a new perspective on an artist of enduring fascination.
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

Most important, he includes confidential material given to him by Bacon but omitted from the first edition.
Imagination's Chamber: Artists and Their Studios

Imagination's Chamber: Artists and Their Studios
Francis Bacon in Your Blood

This is a speaking portrait, a living likeness, of the defining artist of our times.
Francis Bacon: Anatomy Of An Enigma

This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that took place since 1963.
Imagination's Chamber: Artists and Their Studios

Imagination's Chamber: Artists and Their Studios
Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate

Francis Bacon is a painter whose reputation, legendary at the time of his death in 1992, continues to grow. Recent biographies, a movie based on his life, and now the...
Giacometti in Paris

From falling in and out with the Surrealists to years of artistic anguish, from devotion to his mother to intense friendships, tragic love affairs and a fraught marriage, this is an intimate portrait of an outstanding artist in exceptional ...