Deeply intimate memoir-biography of the most important artist of the twentieth century
Michael Peppiatt studied at the University of Cambridge, where he began his career as an art writer by writing exhibition reviews for the Observer. In an international career as a writer and curator, he has curated numerous exhibitions of Francis Bacon’s and other artists’ work and been published in Réalités magazine, Le Monde, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Art News and Art International, which he bought and relaunched in 1985. He is also the author of the definitive Bacon biography, the 1997 Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. In 2005 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Cambridge for his published work in the field of twentieth-century art. He is a member of the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2010 he joined the international board of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
This fine portrait of the artist is both gossipy and poignant …
[and] one of the best art books I have read, by turns atmospheric
and waspishly gossipy but also profound and poignant.
*The Times*
A vivid new memoir by the artist’s protégé is set to be a classic …
highly entertaining … the narrative comes hurtling off the page
with a palpable sense of release and apparently guileless, even
artless, candour.The cavalcade of bohemian celebrities goes on and
on … captivating...a classic, not only of art writing, but of
personal memoir
*Sunday Telegraph*
There is a certain grisly satisfaction in watching an artist behave
as one expects an artist to. Francis Bacon … always delivered and
just how richly is recorded by Peppiatt … A wonderfully vivid
account
*Sunday Times*
The best art memoir published in years
*Spectator*
An intoxicating tour of the painter’s louchest, and most
productive, years
*Vogue*
Peppiatt offers a window into the experiences and emotional
intelligence of this great artist
*New Statesman*
A remarkable book ... it captures what it was like to be in the
presence of this brilliant, camp, reckless, waspish, drunken,
generous, shameless character. Michael Peppiatt brings him back to
life and somehow carries off the near-impossible trick of echoing
the repetitive nature of his drunken talk ... while somehow
preserving his electricity and effervescence
*Mail on Sunday*
An intimate memoir of two intense and interlaced lives ... Full of
gossip, binges, nausea, bruises, stained sheets, punchlines and
death wishes
*Times Literary Supplement*
This fine memoir is more insightful than gossipy, and as a subject
Bacon is just about unbeatable
*New York Times*
Fascinating and engaging
*Sunday Times*
Entertaining, calculated and acerbic, Michael Peppiatt really does
seem to have a bit of Bacon in his blood
*Spectator*
Every page is fresh, immediate, and flashing with glimpses into
Bacon’s complicated psyche
*Booklist*
An affecting personal narrative about his friendship with the great
painter
*Publisher's Weekly*
Francis Bacon’s views on art, death and his bohemian circle make
revealing reading in this enjoyable memoir
*Independent*
An enthralling, delightful story of two very different men
*Kirkus*
Part diary, part art history, part love letter, his memoir captures
what it was like to know this brilliant, camp genius … an excellent
glimpse into a vanished London bohemia
*The Lady*
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