Michael Henry Peppiatt was born on 9 October 1941 and is an English art historian, curator and writer.
13 Facts About Michael Peppiatt
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Michael Peppiatt studied at Brentwood School, Essex, at the University of Gottingen, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and subsequently joined The Observer as a junior art critic.
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Michael Peppiatt then went to Paris to take up an editorial job at Realites magazine, where he remained until 1969, when he was appointed arts editor at Le Monde.
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In 1985, Peppiatt became owner and editor of Art International, which he relaunched from Paris, devoting special issues to the artists he most admired.
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In 1994, Michael Peppiatt returned to London with his wife, the art historian Jill Lloyd, and their two children, where he wrote the biography of Francis Bacon, whose close friend and commentator he had been for thirty years.
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Michael Peppiatt has curated numerous exhibitions worldwide, notably travelling retrospectives of the School of London, Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Christian Schad and Antoni Tapies.
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In 2009, Michael 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.
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Michael Peppiatt 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.
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In 2012, Michael 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 Tapies.
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In 2022, Michael Peppiatt curated the exhibition, Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Michael Peppiatt has completed a new memoir about his life in Paris from the 1960s onwards, to be published by Bloomsbury.
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Michael Peppiatt serves on the advisory council of the UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Michael Peppiatt is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.