Francis Bacon; Anatomy of an Enigma

Peppiatt, Michael

ISBN 10: 0374104948 / ISBN 13: 9780374104948

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1996

About this Item

23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 366pp. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by the author on the half-title page. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 71812

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Francis Bacon; Anatomy of an Enigma
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374104948
• ISBN 13: 9780374104948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

A biography of the British modern artist, famous for starting the informal "School of London", which favored figurative painting in an age of abstract painting

Review

Brilliantly and evocatively written. (Antonia Fraser Daily Mail)

[Peppiatt's] account of the evolution of Bacon's artistic ideas is confident, amusing and thought-provoking. (Richard Davenport-Hines The Independent)

This account of a life, as Peppiatt puts it, "filled with the extremes of human emotion and devoted to expressing them with utmost force," is probably more readable and enjoyable than the attempts at exhaustive biography which surely lie ahead. (Gilbert De Botton, Literary Review)

Anatomy of an Engima will surely remain a uniquely authoritative and readable account of the man who once confided, 'it may sound pretentious but you see I have had the most extraordinary life'. (Literary Review)

One of the most important and insightful writings on the artist (Art Newspaper)