Michael Peppiatt

Education

University of Cambridge.

Career

He then went to Paris to take up an editorial job at Réalités magazine, where he remained until 1969, when he was appointed arts editor at Le Monde. In the mid-1970s he began reporting on cultural events across Europe for The New York Times and The Financial Times, becoming Paris correspondent for several art magazines, notably Art News and Art International. In 1985, Peppiatt became owner and editor of Art International, which he relaunched from Paris, devoting special issues to the artists he most admired.

Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ by The New York Times and translated into several languages, the biography is considered the definitive account of Bacon’s life and work.

Peppiatt has curated numerous exhibitions worldwide, notably travelling retrospectives of the School of London, Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Schad and Antoni Tàpies. In 2009, Peppiatt curated an exhibition of sculpture by Dado for the Venice Biennale, a Maillol retrospective for Barcelona, and a Caravaggio-Bacon exhibit for the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

In 2005, Peppiatt was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Cambridge for his publications on 20th-century art In 2012, Peppiatt published Interviews with Artists, a book of more than forty interviews with personalities ranging from Jean Dubuffet, Balthus, and Oscar Niemeyer to Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Antoni Tàpies.

An exhibition on this theme was shown at Eykyn Maclean in London.

More recently Peppiatt curated a Miró exhibition that travelled from the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg to the Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, in 2014-2015. Peppiatt"s latest memoir, "Francis Bacon in Your Blood" was published by Bloomsbury in August 2015.

Works

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  • Interviews with Artists: 1966-2012

    ( A renowned curator and respected insider of the interna...)

  • Francis Bacon : Studies for a Portrait(Hardback) - 2008 Edition

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  • Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt (1997-06-23)
  • (Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma ) Author: Michael Peppiatt Sep-2008
  • Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt (2008-09-11)
  • Interviews with Artists : 1966-2012 (Hardcover)--by Michael Peppiatt 2012 Edition
  • Jill Lloyd: Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit (Hardcover); 2003 Edition
  • Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir by Michael Peppiatt (2015-12-01)
  • Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait by Michael Peppiatt (2008-11-18)
  • Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt (1997-06-08)

Membership

He is a member of the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature, and since 2010 he has been on the board of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.