Michael made an illustrated presentation of his new book, ‘Giacometti in Paris’, on 2 November at Christie’s London.
Michael made an illustrated presentation of his new book, ‘Giacometti in Paris’, on 2 November at Christie’s London.
Michael will be giving talk on his new book Giacometti in Paris on the following dates:
11 October at 4:30pm at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the Leslie Stephen Room.
12 October at 7:00pm at Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely (details below):
https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/michael-peppiatt-2023/
“I often pick up one of my favorite books, Interviews with Artists 1966-2012, by art critic Michael Peppiatt. It’s the kind of book you can open at any page when you need a snippet of insight from a great artist.”
Michael’s book was mentioned in this excellent interview of Angela Ledgerwood by Girls at Library.
You can read the full article here.
Michael discusses his friendship with Bacon, lunch with Lucian Freud, and unforgettable encounters with Sonia Delaunay and more, in a podcast recorded for Thames & Hudson.
Listen to it here: https://thamesandhudson.com/news/podcast-personal-conversations-with-modern-arts-liveliest-minds/
Biography
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma (1997; revised edition 2008)
Alberto Giacometti in Paris (2023)
Memoirs
Francis Bacon In Your Blood (2015)
The Existential Englishman (2018)
Selected Essays
Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait (2008; revised edition 2021)
Artists’ Lives (2023)
Art History
Modern Art In Britain (1964)
Imagination’s Chamber: Artists and Their Studios (1983)
In Giacometti’s Studio (2010)
Art Plural: Voices of Contemporary Art (2014)
The Making of Modern Art (2021)
Auerbach/Bevan: What Is a Head? (2022)
Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words: Statements, Letters and Studio Notes. Edited and Introduced by Michael Peppiatt (2023)
Interviews
Interviews with Artists [1966-2012] (2010; new edition 2023?)
‘Only Too Much Is Enough’: Francis Bacon in his Own Words (2022)
Plays
Bacon/Giacometti: A Dialogue (2021)
Selected Exhibition Catalogues
Raymond Mason (1982)
The School of London (1987)
L’Ecole de Londres: De Bacon à Bevan (1998)
Zoran Music (2001)
Alberto Giacometti in Post-War Paris (2001)
Aristide Maillol (2002)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gaston Chaissac, Jean Dubuffet, Joaquin Torres-Garcia (2003)
Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit [ed. with Jill Lloyd] (2003)
Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art (2003)
Sean Scully (2004)
Francis Bacon: The Sacred and Profane (2004)
Antonio Tàpies (2005)
Francis Bacon in the 1950s (2006)
Van Gogh and Expressionism [ed. with Jill Lloyd] (2007)
Caravaggio/Bacon (2009)
Peter Blake (2009)
In Giacometti’s Studio (2010)
Dado: Venice Biennale (2010)
Giacometti: An Intimate Portrait (2010)
Nicolas de Staël (2013)
Bacon/Giacometti (2018)
Avigdor Arikha (2020)
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast (2022)
Translations
Francis Bacon: l’art de l’impossible [trans. with Michel Leiris] (1976)
Selected Books in French:
Entretiens avec Francis Bacon, L’Echoppe, Paris, 1998
Francis Bacon à l’atelier, L’Echoppe, Paris,1999
Espace et Lumière (Sean Scully et Richard Meier), L’Echoppe, Paris, 1999
Zoran Music, Entretiens 1988-1998, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2000
L’Ecole de Londres, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2002
Alberto Giacometti, Oeuvres de la maturité, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, 2002
Dans l’atelier de Giacometti, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2002
Van Gogh, ombres et lumières, Centre national de documentation pédagogique, Paris, 2002
Francis Bacon: Anatomie d’une énigme, Flammarion (Grandes biographies), Paris, 2003
Rencontre avec Pierre Soulages, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2003
Le regard de Bacon, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2003
Francis Bacon: le sacré et le profane, Musée Maillol, Paris, 2004
Sean Scully, Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2004
L’amitié Leiris Bacon: Une étrange fascination, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2006
L’Ecole de Londres, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2006
Les Dilemmes de Jean Dubuffet, Paris, L’Echoppe. Paris, 2006
Peter Blake, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 2009
Lucian Freud, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2010
Jean Dubuffet/James Fitzsimmons: Correspondance 1956-64, 2011
Un après-midi chez Henry Moore, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2013
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rencontres, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2014
Claes Oldenburg, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2017
David Hockney, Souvenirs, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2017
Bacon/Giacometti : Une Rencontre à Londres, L’Echoppe, Paris, 2019
Bacon et Giacometti en parallèle, L’Echoppe, 2019
Francis Bacon, Flammarion (Grandes Biographies), Paris, nouvelle édition, 2019
Conversations avec Adrian Ghenie, L’Echoppe, 2021
Selected Exhibition Catalogues in French:
Denise Esteban: entre ciel et mer, Maison de la Culture, Bourges, 1974
Dado: noir sur blanc, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1975
Pierre Soulages: Galerie Jade, Colmar, 1991
Louis le Brocquy: Images de Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1979
Zoran Music: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1995
Lucian Freud: L’Oeuvre Gravé, Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1990
Raymond Mason, Musée Maillol, Paris, 2000
L’Ecole de Londres, Musée Maillol, Paris, 1998
Aristide Maillol, introduction du catalogue suivie d’un entretien avec Dina Vierny, IVAM, Valencia, 2002
Alberto Giacometti dans le Paris d’après-guerre, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, 2002.
Zoran Music, préface et entretiens, Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim, Genève, 2002
Christian Schad, Musée Maillol, Paris, 2002
Francis Bacon: Le sacré et le profane, Musée Maillol, Paris, 2003
Le feu sous la cendre, Galerie Jan Krugier, Genève, 2003
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gaston Chaissac, Jean Dubuffet, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Galerie Navarra, Paris, 2003
Sean Scully, Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2004
Dado : Les Elégies Zorzi, Palazzo Zorzi, Biennale de Venise, Venise, 2009
Les Giacometti: Giovanni, Alberto, Diego, Fondation pour l’écrit, Genève, 2009
Marc Desgrandschamps, Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2016
Francis Bacon et Shakespeare, ‘Bacon en toutes lettres’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019
In Progress:
Faces in the Crowd: Portraits of Artists and Writers
Bacon/Picasso (An Exhibition)
The Francis Bacon: Man and Beast exhibition has just ended its run at The Royal Academy. Reception to the show has been everything one could have hope for and more. We have collected below some reviews of the show:
Wall Street Journal – The Art Newspaper – Irish Times – The FT – The Guardian – Artlyst – FAD Magazine – TimeOut – The Week – The Arts Desk – AnOther Magazine – TheUpcoming – ArtReview – HyperAllergic – The New Statesman
There is an excellent video available on the RA’s exhibition page which we would suggest checking out:
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/francis-bacon
Update: Michael’s interview segment on the Evening Standard podcast The Leader is now available for listening (skip to 01:38):
Very much looking forward to the next project!
Michael has brought together the most notable remarks that Francis Bacon made to him during their thirty year long friendship.
The sayings assembled for the first time in Only Too Much is Enough form a brilliant accompaniment to Bacon’s paintings, conveying as they do not only a sceptical and sometimes disquieting outlook on human relationships, but also keen insights into the creative process.
For more details and to order a copy, visit here:
https://eris.press/Only-Too-Much-is-Enough
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