Artists' Lives

Michael Peppiatt is a well-known writer and curator, who began his career as an art critic in London and Paris in the 1960s. Described by the Art Newspaper as `the best art writer of his generation¿, his previous books include Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma and Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait. He is guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts¿ exhibition `Francis Bacon: Man and Beast¿ (London, 2022).

Introduction
1. Vincent van Gogh: Between Shadows and the Sun
2. Aristide Maillol and the Red Count
3. The Darker Side of Pierre Bonnard
4. Aubrey Beardsley¿s Brief Brilliance
5. Picassös Trousers
6. Joan Miró: A Painter Among Poets
7. Talking to Sonia Delaunay
8. Christian Schad¿s Portraits of the 1920s
9. A Tribute to Dora Maar
10. Alice Bellony Rewald: Portrait of a Muse
11. John Richardson, The Sorcerer¿s Apprentice
12. Henri Michaux Painter-Poet
13. Jean Dubuffet¿s War on Culture
14. From Breton to Beckett: The Writers in Giacometti¿s Life
15. Remembering Alberto Giacometti. An Interview with Jacques Dupin
16. A Broken Dream of Balthus
17. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
18. Looking Back at Nicolas de Staël
19. Zoran Music: Art after Dachau
20. Dado and the Atrocity of Everyday Life
21. In memoriam: Antoni Tàpies
22. The Paradox of Francis Bacon
23. The Legacy of Genius: Van Gogh and Bacon
24. Bacon/Giacometti: Parallel Visions of a Terrible Truth
25. Lucian Freud¿s Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau)
26. Raymond Mason Confronts the Torrent of Life
27. R. B. Kitaj: Paintings as Novels